![]() Nick Clark Windo’s debut, The Feed, ‘stands out for the nature of its disaster’. Confused and frightened, Anna begins to wonder if she hallucinated the attack: “I feel as though I’m falling through my own mind.” It’s a nifty premise from Finn, the pseudonym of US books editor Daniel Mallory, pulled off classily with book deals struck in 38 territories, and film rights sold to Fox 2000, it is already No 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. When she hears a bloodcurdling scream from their house, then sees what she believes to be a murder, the police don’t believe her. Desperately miserable and unwisely mixing rivers of merlot with the serious medication she’s been given, Anna is particularly fascinated by the family who live across the park, the Russells. ![]() She lives alone in a Harlem brownstone she never leaves, taking photos of her neighbours and spying on their lives, talking to her estranged husband and daughter on the phone, playing chess and chatting on forums online. Or does she? Finn’s particular addled woman is Dr Anna Fox, a child psychologist who has become severely agoraphobic after a traumatic experience, terrified by “the vast skies, the endless horizon, the sheer exposure, the crushing pressure of the outdoors”. ![]() ![]() ![]() A J Finn’s debut novel, The Woman in the Window, is the latest addition to the Before I Go to Sleep/ The Girl on the Train subgenre of psychological thrillers: woman whose brain is addled for whatever reason (booze amnesia medication) witnesses a crime. ![]()
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