Review: The Wife and the Widow - Christian White - September 2019 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 the secrets she uncovers about her dead husband's hidden life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside down when she's forced to confront uncomfortable truths about her own husband. Only when these two women come together does the full, unsettling picture emerge. For me, this was a borderline read  and possibly the most confusing of Christian White's books that I've picked up. I went in feeling confident I had it figured out. The dual narrative pulled me along, the island atmosphere was genuinely eerie, and White's writing kept me turning pages. But then the final act arrived and completely threw me. I found myself thinking, how can this even be? and not in the satisfying, jaw-dropping way a good ...