Book Review: The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window, We Dare You To Put It Down

If you enjoy reading a gripping psychological thriller with twists and turns aplenty, you need to get The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn today. One of our best friends recommended this novel, and we are so pleased she did. Thank you, M! As we think it is one of the best ‘Oh-my-goodness-what-is-going-to-happen-next’ novels we consumed all year.

Can She Trust What She Thinks She Saw?

Anna Fox lives alone in a five-story New York brownstone. Due to an incident a year prior, she has Agoraphobia. Thus, she is a prisoner inside her home, and to a degree, her mind. Although, her all-day and all-night wine drinking might not be helping her conditions. In addition, it isn’t healthy for her to spy on all her neighbors as she does. Though, no one could blame her, locked up as she is.

However, everything changes when she witnesses a horrific event while watching the new neighbors through their living room windows across the street. Can her mind be trusted, though? Will anyone believe her in her condition? And what about the perpetrator of the crime? Will they finish her off before she can prove what she saw?

Read The Book Before You See The Film

Netflix is bringing this wonderful novel to a screen near you to be released May 14, 2021. The film stars Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, and Gary Oldman. And we can’t wait to see it.

We are BIG proponents of reading any novel before seeing the counterpart on the big or small screen. Why? The answer is we LOVE reading. But given that we also enjoy watching movies, we prefer reading before watching because it’s fun to see how stories we love are brought to life in productions.

So, it’s probably pretty obvious by now we reveled in this book and we highly recommend you read it too!

The Woman in the Window Publisher Synopsis

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, a mother, their teenage 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.

Author Bio:

I’m A. J. Finn, author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW — a debut novel that Stephen King describes as “remarkable” and I call “the best I could do.” Guess which quote appears on the jacket.

THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW has been sold in 43 territories around the globe. The film adaptation, starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, and Julianne Moore, will be released worldwide in autumn 2019. The movie directed by Joe Wright, written by Tracy Letts, and produced by Scott Rudin.

I spent a decade working in publishing in both New York and London, with a particular emphasis on thrillers and mysteries. Now I write full-time, to the relief of my former colleagues. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW was inspired by a range of experiences: my lifelong love affair with suspense fiction, from the Sherlock Holmes stories I devoured as a kid to the work of Patricia Highsmith, whom I studied at the graduate level at Oxford; my passion for classic cinema, especially the films of Alfred Hitchcock; and my struggles with depression and mental health. The result, I hope, is a psychological thriller in the vein of Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Kate Atkinson, among others.

Stuff I love: reading; swimming; cooking; dogs; ice cream; travel. (Note that third semicolon. It’s crucial. I do not love cooking dogs.) I collect first-edition books and enjoy spending time with my French bulldog, Ike.

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