We discussed when we had figured out the main twists, with some people figuring them out faster than others. He seemed to be blamed for a lot of things simply due to his history, which wasn't fair.Īs this is a thriller there are lots of twists.

We also found that we felt very sorry for the guy living in her basement. What would you do if you saw someone being murdered through your window? We wondered how we would have reacted if we'd seen and gone through everything Anna had. We all completely understood why she was doing this, given everything she had gone through prior to the book.

We felt that she was distancing herself firstly by staying in her house, but also by using a camera to look at her neighbours. She just seemed to keep doing things that were not in her best interests. “I felt it would be disconcerting for my authors to wander into a bookshop and see their editor’s name written large across a hardback,” he said.We all felt very sad for the main characters. Mallory had always planned to submit the manuscript under a pseudonym, which is a mash-up of his cousin’s name, Alice Jane, plus the name of another family member’s French bulldog. Here’s what he said about why he chose A.J. There was a bidding war for his book and most assumed the author was a female, The New York Timesreports. The real author’s name is Daniel Mallory and he’s a book editor. The Woman in the Window has been optioned for a movie and will star Amy Adams as Anna and Juliana Moore will play the mother of the boy who moves across the street, according to the The Hollywood Reporter. So, this sounds a bit Rear Window and also some The Girl on the Train. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one-and nothing-is what it seems. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble-and its shocking secrets are laid bare. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times. Let’s check the synopsis for The Woman in the Window:Īnna Fox lives alone-a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. That one is about a newspaper photographer with a broken leg passing time recuperating by observing his neighbors through his window and believes he sees a murder. I went through a phase in high school where I watched plenty of old movies so it’s been a long time since I’ve watched it so don’t remember much other than the premise. Right away, this sounds like the Hitchcock movie, Rear Window, starring Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelley.

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