In 2006, Jean and Glen Taylor were a married couple in their late thirties living a seemingly normal existence. Each chapter heading indicates who is the focus of the chapter and the date of the events described. It is June 9, 2010, and Kate has come to speak with Jean about the recent death of her husband Glen, and Glen’s involvement in a kidnapping that took place on October 2, 2006.Ĭhapters in the novel alternate between the perspectives of different characters and different timelines. The novel begins with first-person, present-tense narration from Jean Taylor as she describes answering the door to a reporter from the Daily Post named Kate Waters. The Widow is a nonlinear psychological thriller that takes place in various neighborhoods of London spanning the years 2006-2010. My husband and I are still living the good life in south-west France, where I am writing in bed, early in the morning when the only distraction is our cockerel, Titch, crowing.The following version of the book was used to create this guide: Barton, Fiona. The Child will be published in April 2017 and I am embarking on my next novel. It only makes a paragraph in an evening newspaper but for three women it's impossible to ignore. It begins with the discovery of a newborn's skeleton on a building site. It gave me the confidence to write a second book ,The Child, in which I return to another story that had intrigued me as a journalist. Much to my astonishment and delight, The Widow was published in 36 countries and made the Sunday Times and New York Times Best Seller lists. It took the liberation of my career change to turn that fascination into a tale of a missing child, narrated by the wife of the man suspected of the crime, the detective leading the hunt, the journalist covering the case and the mother of the victim. The worm of my first book infected me long ago when, as a national newspaper journalist covering notorious crimes and trials, I found myself wondering what the wives of those accused really knew - or allowed themselves to know.
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