Pubblicato in Italia con il titolo, La donna alla finestra. Anna Fox esce da casa sua da più di dieci mesi. Spende le sue giornate guardando vecchi film, dando consigli psicologici online, bevendo vino e prendendo pillole, e spiando i suoi vicini dalla sua finestra. Un giorno, mentre spia i suoi nuovi vicini vede qualcosa di terrebile. Ma nessuno le crede.
This book had been on my TBR pile for a while before I finally decided to pick it up and I am sorry it took me so long because it’s an amazing read.
The woman in the window is Anna Fox, once a renowned psychiatrist, and now closed into her home because she suffers from agoraphobia, the fear of being outside. Anna hasn’t been outside in ten months and she spends her time watching old movies, counseling online people who suffer like her, drinking a lot of wine and taking medications, and spying on her neighbours from her window. That’s how she finds out about the Russells, who have just moved next door. Anna is particularly drawn to their sixteen-year-old son, Ethan, who she sees as a defenseless teenager afraid of his father.
One night, Anna sees something terrible happening in the Russells’ house but nobody seems to believe her story. So Anna decides to deal with in on her own.
This is such a remarkable and engrossing novel. The Girl on the Train meets Hitchcock (especially his movie The Rear Window). The novel is told from Anna’s point of view and the author gets into her mind to tell the reader all her feelings, her fears, her hopes, and, slowly, the truth about her past (the reason she became agoraphobic and what happened to her family). Because she is an alcoholic and she is on medication, Anna is an unreliable character so even though you know her every thought you don’t know what is real and true and what is not making the novel more suspenseful and superb.
Twisty, beautifully plotted, and with complex characters, this is one of these thrillers that will keep you up at night reading and you won’t put down until the end and it’s going to be turned into a movie!
