For one woman, it’s a reminder of the worst thing that ever happened to her.
For another, it reveals the dangerous possibility that her darkest secret is about to be discovered.
And for the third, a journalist, it’s the first clue in a hunt to uncover the truth.
About the author:
Fiona Barton
trains and works with journalists all over the world. Previously, she was a
senior writer at the Daily Mail, news editor at the Daily Telegraph,
and chief reporter at the Mail on Sunday, where she won Reporter of the
Year at the British Press Awards. Born in Cambridge, she currently lives in
south-west France.
She gave up her
job to volunteer in Sri Lanka and since 2008, has trained and worked with
exiled and threatened journalists all over the world. But through it all, a
story was cooking in her head.
Explains Fiona,
‘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.
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.
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 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. It begins with
the discovery of a newborn’s skeleton on a building site. It only makes a
paragraph in an evening newspaper but for three women it’s impossible to
ignore.’
No comments:
Post a Comment