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Introducing The Woman in the Window

T he Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn, Dan Mallorys pseudonym, is the newest debut in a hot genre where one wonders if what they see is really happening. Within its pages is twists and turns that throw readers off its tracks while being a richly plotted and beautifully written novel of loss, love and madness.

Anna Fox is a thirty-eight-year-old child psychologist who lives in a beautiful home in uptown Manhattan. However, she never leaves her home and can be seen peering out through her windows at her neighbors and those passing by on the street. Anna is an agoraphobic, someone who is terrified of crowded and public spaces, and Anna hasnt left her home in almost a year despite the heavy medication she takes to curb her fears. To pass her time, Anna watches those outside, watches old black-and-white movie classics such as Gaslight, and drinks a large amount of wine. Annas estranged husband, worried about his wife, had taken their eight-year-old daughter away, despite Annas constant calls for them to return. Anna is not completely alone in her home; not only does Anna have the company of a cat, but she also rents her basement to a handsome carpenter, creating a bit of tension within the novel on whether or not they will get together.

Anna gets plenty of excitement from her neighbors. She watches one of her neighbors having an affair while the husband walks up to the house. She debates whether she should warn the soon-to-be-caught lovers, but ends up deciding to let nature play its course, comparing to how those who photograph nature never interfere with what they see in the wildlife. When a new family moves across the street, Anna is excited to have something new to watch and eagerly delves into the Russells lives through her camera. Soon after the Russell family moves in, Anna gets caught spying on the Russell family by the mother. Jane Russell sends her son, Ethan, over to visit Anna and surprise her with a gift of a candle. Ethan reminds Anna of a boy she liked years ago, and she grows a certain platonic fondness for the boy. With that first real meeting of the family, Anna is then treated with meeting Ethans parents, Jane and Paul. Through watching through the Russells windows, Anna learns how unhappy the Russell family actually is. Annas time with Ethan showed a darker side of the family as Ethan hints of domestic violence from his father towards him and his mother. One evening after Anna had indulged in wine and her drugs, Anna hears a scream coming from outside. With her trusty binoculars, Anna sees what she believes is an extremely violent act coming from within the Russell home. Desperate to help, Anna calls the police. Unfortunately for Anna, when the police investigate her report, they see that there was no trouble within the Russell household. Instead what they find is that Anna consumes two or three bottles of wine a day combined with strong prescription drugs that should never be mixed with alcohol. Thus, the police feel that Anna imagined the whole scenario. Poor Anna begins to question her own sanity, but chooses to continue watching the Russells through her window, desperate to either prove herself or to find the truth. With her own paranoia in control of her life, Anna is thrown into a plot where she learns that you can never trust anything you may see while she fights herself and her own fears in a plot to save her own life.

One of the major themes within the book is what depression can do to a person who is under its influence. Anna experienced an extremely traumatic event, which sent her down a spiral that ruined her marriage and created her own cage. With her daughter being taken away and agoraphobia encompassing her life, it is no surprise that Anna would undergo deep depression. While Annas finances are well-off, her lack of her family and her fear of outside makes her turn to the sweet embrace of prescription drugs and booze. Dan Mallory, A.J. Finns real name, is able to expertly show how difficult the most simple things can be when one is suffering from depression.

Reminiscent of Hitchcocks thorough twists and turns, The Woman in the Window delivers a stunning reprise from the typical psychological thrillers. Readers should know that no matter how comfortable one feels within a pages of a book, with A. J. Finn at the reigns, one will never know what to expect.

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