The Wife and the Widow

If you like: Michael Robotham, J.P. Delaney, J.P. Pomare
If you’re in the mood for: Australian, dual narrative, family drama
My reading format: Audiobook

The Blurb

Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband’s secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside when she’s forced to confront the evidence of her husband’s guilt. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives. Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and The Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?

My Review

This was the February 2021 Editors’ Extra for Audible Australia so (We love Audible Australia) and everyone was raving about it, so I definitely needed to give it a go. I wasn’t disappointed. It’s a dual narrative story where at the beginning I needed to listen again just to get the two people straight in my head but once it got going I was hooked. If you like Australian thrillers with a twist, you’ll love this. I gave it a solid 4 stars.