She feels bereft and begins to daydream about children – even going so far as to make a scrapbook of pictures of children she has clipped from magazines and advertisements. She wanted to adopt, but her husband forbade that notion. After myriad tests it was determined that her husband was infertile. As the years passed, Jean longed for a child. She married young and had a job at a hairdressing salon. Jean, or Jeannie as her husband liked to call her, is in her late thirties. One day while playing in her front garden in Hampshire – she disappears. The story centers around Bella Elliot, a sw eet blond-haired girl with an eye-patch and glasses because she has a ‘lazy eye’. The contemporary British setting, with the advanced technology and social media, make it a pertinent novel which will resonate with the reader. Told from different points of view, “ The Widow” is a debut thriller that will stand the test of time and hold it’s own with the best of them.
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