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. The Widow is her first novel. Born in Cambridge, she currently lives in south-west France.
A highly enjoyable first novel... Gripping * READER'S DIGEST * Will keep you gripped till the end * CANDIS * The Widow is generating a huge buzz * SUNDAY MAIL * Next year's The Girl on the Train * THE BOOKSELLER * Gritty, emotional and so believable * ESSENTIALS * A terrifically chilling exploration of the darkness at the heart of a seemingly ordinary marriage, the life of quiet desperation behind a neat suburban door. Gripping and horribly plausible * Tammy Cohen * A terrifically chilling exploration of the darkness at the heart of a seemingly ordinary marriage, the life of quiet desperation behind a neat suburban door. Gripping and horribly plausible * Tammy Cohen * 'A brilliant, enthralling debut' * Jill Mansell * She tells her tale with a realism and restraint that add to its shattering impact * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * A skilful, tautly written thriller * RED * A complex, intriguing heroine and a dark, unsettling story makes this a real page-turner. * Woman & Home * A cleverly conceived, interesting novel * LITERARY REVIEW * A book you'll drop everything to whip through * GLAMOUR * Dark, compelling and utterly unputdownable. My book of the year so far * C. L. Taylor, author of THE ACCIDENT and THE LIE * An unsettling, compulsive tale * GOOD HOUSEKEEPING * Stunning from start to finish. I devoured it in one sitting. The best book I've read this year. If you liked GONE GIRL, you'll love this. Fiona Barton is a major new talent. * M J Arlidge * The most buzzed about book of 2016 * HEAT * The ultimate psychological thriller. Barton carefully unspools this dark, intimate tale of a terrible crime, a stifling marriage, and the lies spouses tell not just to each other, but to themselves in order to make it through. The ending totally blew me away. * LISA GARDNER * The big thriller of the year * STYLIST * Feted as this year's The Girl on the Train * OBSERVER *