![]() ![]() Both Kate and Abby’s worlds experience seismic shifts, but due to what appear to be, at first, trivial lies. ![]() White’s eerie, patient unraveling of small deceptions makes The Wife and the Widow a hypnotic reading experience. The only place she can think to look for her missing husband is the island where they own a vacation home. After he doesn’t come home from what he said was a business trip, Kate learns that John quit his job three months ago. Just as Abby is struggling to reconcile her husband’s odd behavior, stay-at-home mom Kate is suddenly questioning everything she knows about her husband, John. Suddenly distant and secretive, Ray has disposed of his work clothes and can’t account for all his time away from home. When the police find the body of a man who died under suspicious circumstances, it disrupts the sleepy island community-and makes Abby notice how strangely Ray has been acting. Even the most die-hard thriller reader will be surprised at the direction The Wife and the Widow takes, but even without its truly shocking reveal, White’s thriller stands out for its penetrating examination of marriage and the lies that build between spouses.Ībby and her husband, Ray, are eking out a living on a gothic, windswept island off the coast of Victoria, Australia. Screenwriter Christian White knows his way around a plot twist. ![]()
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