Then one night she is brought bang into the living.Īcross the street she hears a blood-curdling scream and Anna sees what she believes is a murder taking place. She wants to be numb, she doesn’t want to feel or remember. This is all with a hefty dose of booze and pills so that she can keep her feelings suffocated, and keep everything muffled and at a distance. Much of her life is spent online, spying on her neighbours (and taking photos) or watching her favourite black and white movies.
We learn that Anna Fox is a child psychologist who likes to use her knowledge and experience to help others online in chat forums. Plus, she has weekly visits from Bina, her physical therapist, Dr Fielding, who she has sessions with on the phone, and David, her lodger, who lives in the basement. Her only connections with the outside world are her phone calls with her husband (who she is separated from) and her young daughter, Livvy. She is an alcoholic and abuses her medication and, therefore, when she says she has witnessed a crime at her neighbours we are unsure whether to believe her? Did she imagine it? Or did she actually witness a murder?Īnna Fox is severely agoraphobic and terrified of leaving the house. As the reader, we spend the novel going backwards and forwards in regards to whether we trust Anna. It’s in a similar vein to the Girl on the Train, in that the protagonist - Anna Fox - is female and potentially untrustworthy. The Woman In The Window is A.J Finn’s debut novel, and what an accomplished novel it is. I had to put my thriller fears aside and dive into this novel. Plus, Gillian Flynn has given this novel high praise - “Astounding, thrilling, amazing”. For starters, the front of the novel declares that it has sold over 2 million copies.
Finn, I knew that I was going to have to read it. However, when I saw The Woman In The Window by A.J. I now pick up thrillers with a certain sense of trepidation, I worry that I am going to be left feeling disappointed. I love a good thriller but I have stumbled across a frustrating problem: I’ve now read so many that I can usually predict the twist and the ending.
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