![]() ![]() My husband and I are still living the good life in south-west France, where I am writing in bed, early in the morning when the only distraction is our cockerel, Titch, crowing. ![]() The Child will be published in April 2017 and I am embarking on my next novel. It only makes a paragraph in an evening newspaper but for three women it's impossible to ignore. It begins with the discovery of a newborn's skeleton on a building site. It gave me the confidence to write a second book ,The Child, in which I return to another story that had intrigued me as a journalist. Much to my astonishment and delight, The Widow was published in 36 countries and made the Sunday Times and New York Times Best Seller lists. A womans search to uncover the mysterious disappearance of her husband leads her to the Congo, where shes forced to seek the truth about what happened to the man she loved. It took the liberation of my career change to turn that fascination into a tale of a missing child, narrated by the wife of the man suspected of the crime, the detective leading the hunt, the journalist covering the case and the mother of the victim. ![]() The worm of my first book infected me long ago when, as a national newspaper journalist covering notorious crimes and trials, I found myself wondering what the wives of those accused really knew - or allowed themselves to know. ![]()
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