Here is a man who is outwardly unremarkable, yet, as the book asks, is he also a paedophile and a murderer? And is Jeanie complicit in his misdeeds? Not, of course, a sign of his warped nature, one that he keeps well-hidden. According to him, his obsession with child pornography is a medical condition for which he needs help. When he's put on trial, he bills himself as a victim of police harassment. (Don't we all know people like that?!) He attributes his dismissal from his bank job to his boss's jealousy rather than his unsatisfactory performance. Everything is someone else's fault, never his. His persona is wonderfully drawn, shown through the myriad ways he controls Jeanie and his failure to accept responsibility for his actions. I loved Fiona's depiction of the two main characters, Glen and Jeanie Taylor. I read it in one sitting, forcing my eyes to stay open one night as I devoured the contents into the small hours. Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows.' But now Glen is dead and she’s alone for the first time, free to tell her story on her own terms. Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil. Until he became that man accused, that monster on the front page. Glen was all she’d ever wanted: her Prince Charming. But what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs – the wife who stands by him? Jean Taylor’s life was blissfully ordinary. 'We've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime.
Wow! When I read that, I decided this novel was right up my street, both as the kind of book I like to read and also to write.
a terrifically chilling exploration of the darkness at the heart of a seemingly ordinary marriage.' It's billed as 'the ultimate psychological thriller. The book was published in 2016 and has achieved both Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller status. This week's blog post is a book review of 'The Widow', Fiona Barton's first novel.
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