The Woman in the Window
A Novel
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4.2 • 433 Ratings
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- $11.99
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Publisher Description
“As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us. . . [Finn] has not only captured, sympathetically, the interior life of a depressed person, but also written a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last sentence.” — Washington Post
The #1 bestseller that gripped the world, selling millions of copies around the globe – a tour-de-force Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house.
It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening . . .
Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors.
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare.
What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.
Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Like all the best psychological thrillers, The Woman in the Window creaks with dark menace and surprise. Influenced by Hitchcock, debut novelist A. J. Finn takes his cues from Hitchcock, carefully building suspicion and paranoia as he pulls us into the world of Anna, a child psychologist who’s become a shut-in after experiencing severe trauma. Finn doles out information in dribs and drabs, giving us fleeting glimpses into Anna’s psyche, her troubled marriage, and the lives of her neighbours, whom she observes through the sealed-shut windows of her Manhattan townhouse.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Child psychologist Anna Fox, the unreliable narrator of Finn's gripping first novel, lives out one of the classic films that she loves so well Hitchcock's Rear Window. In this modern update, the agoraphobic Anna hasn't left her Manhattan townhouse in more than 11 months. When she's not observing the neighbors and photographing them with her digital camera, she's watching movies, playing chess, and counseling other agoraphobics via an online forum. Then her obsession with the new family across the park begins to take over. When Anna witnesses a stabbing in their house, no one believes what she saw is real and it's entirely possible that Anna shouldn't believe it herself. The secrets of Anna's past and the uncertain present are revealed slowly in genuinely surprising twists. And, while the language is at times too clever for its own good, readers will eagerly turn the pages to see how it all turns out. This highly anticipated debut has already received endorsements from such notables as Gillian Flynn and Louise Penny.
Customer Reviews
Loved it...
The psychology of the main character was mesmerizing...and the ending a surprise
nice read
an easy quick read with a good storyline and characters. liked it!
Great Thriller!
Had a hard time putting this book down. Excellent thriller.