He breaks down and tells her the truth: Jane and Alistair are his adoptive parents, and Katie, the woman Anna assumed was Jane, is his biological mother. Anna realizes that the murder may have been a hallucination as well.Īnna finds a picture she had taken of the Jane she met and shows it to Ethan. Knowing her medications can cause hallucinations, they theorize that Anna could have taken the picture and emailed it to herself. A detective confronts her with the tragic truth: Her husband and daughter died in the car accident that triggered her agoraphobia, and she has been imagining her conversations with them. After she receives an anonymous email with a picture of herself sleeping, she calls the police. Anna insists the woman claiming to be Jane is not the same woman she met before.Īnna has a number of encounters with the Russells and becomes convinced that something is suspicious about them.

The police, including detectives Little and Norelli, also don't believe Anna's story as another woman who claims to be Jane is alive and uninjured.

The Russells deny that any sort of attack took place. One evening, while looking out the window, Anna witnesses Jane being stabbed and calls the police. There is Ethan, the reserved and polite teenage son Alistair, the controlling father and Jane, a friendly woman with whom Anna shares many interests. She also spends time spying on her neighbors, including the Russells, a family that moved in across the street. To pass the time, Anna spends her days drinking too much alcohol, playing online chess, communicating with other recluses through the 'Agora online forum,' watching old movies, and meeting with her shrink and physical therapist. However, they frequently talk on the phone. She recently separated from her husband, Ed, who has custody of their nine-year-old daughter Olivia. Plot Īnna Fox suffers from agoraphobia due to a traumatic car accident and lives a reclusive life at her large home in New York City. It hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The novel has been translated into more than 40 languages, and has sold millions of copies worldwide. The Woman in the Window is a thriller novel by American author AJ Finn, published by William Morrow on January 2, 2018. Print (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book

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