Fortunately I did not read any of the “hype” supposedly surrounding this novel before I read it, as I tend to get disappointed when it doesn’t quite live up to expectations. Hyped up or not, I found this book to be engrossing from page one and couldn’t wait to find out where it was all going to end up.

Very well written with a good pace throughout, this book will not disappoint the majority of suspense/psychological thriller readers out there.. oh and for once, I didn’t see any of the twists coming!

I was lucky enough to receive this book from netgalley wow wow wow what a heart breaking story It was a edge of your seat thriller with a killer twist but also had a lot of heart breaking moments this is a must read

I'll start this review by saying that, although I am aware of the controversy surrounding the author, I did not let it affect my reading of this book.
This book was the definition of "meh" for me. Anna is agoraphobic and has problems with alcohol and prescription meds. one day, she hears a scream and witnesses a crime.
To be honest, that's as far as I got. I reached just over 40% and gave up. I just had no impetus to carry on reading, I reading didn't care about Anna or her neighbour.
I found that I was more interested in how Anna became agoraphobic than I was with her witnessing a crime. The small section where she reveals some of her backstory was the most absorbing bit of the novel for me. But then we're back to present day, and it slipped back into monotony.
I reached about 30% and nothing had happened. Literally nothing- Anna plays online chess, drinks wine, pops pills, doesn't leave the house, and watches black and white films. If the story had been compelling, I think the constant mentions of old films would have worked, but I felt the references were shoe-horned in to try to make Anna more interesting.
The main issue I had with Anna was that, as we do not know the story of how she became an alcoholic, agoraphobic, I struggled to sympathise with her. For much of the book, she just comes across as a bit pathetic and I was unable to empathise because I had no idea how she got like this.
Overall, I just wasn't impressed. The reason for the 2 instead of 1 is that the section about her back story was slightly interesting.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book n exchange for an honest review.

This book is majorly hyped and has been likened to Girl on the Train however in my opinion this book just doesn't have the wow factor I look for in a psychological thriller. The book Follows an alcoholic, agraphobia called Dr Anna Fox who lives alone in a huge house except for her basement tenant David. Her husband and daughter, are elsewhere, though she talks to them regularly. We know that a recent trauma is the cause of her agoraphobia but you have to wait until the final 3rd of the book to discover what exactly this is. She also has a love of black and white movies and at the start I found their inclusion in the narrative helpful and a little different but towards the end they were grating on me a little as the pace slowed up. Anna like to watch her neighbours and one evening she sees her neighbour get murdered but when she speaks out to the police no one believes her as the lady is alive and well but Anna knows this is not the lady that she met, This book was addictive I finished it fairly quickly but it was as other reviews mention quite predictable. I will read more from this author but this book just wasn't for me.

The Woman in the Window starts slowly to build the claustrophobic atmosphere and introduce the unreliable narrator, Anna Fox. We wonder what has led to such self-destructive behaviour, and why she is living the way she is – doped up on a cocktail of prescription drugs and red wine. Her agoraphobia is obviously the result of some great trauma, but AJ Finn ramps up the tension by only gradually revealing Anna’s story in a series of flashbacks.
Time passes slowly and she spends it watching old black and white movies, playing chess and observing her neighbours through her camera lens. The Russell family have recently moved in across the park and Anna is slightly obsessed with watching them. One day she believes she has witnessed a murder. Needless to say, no one believes her and there is no evidence.
In his debut novel, AJ Finn has created a well-written and convincing female character, and a tense plot full of twists and turns. My only criticism is that it would benefit from some judicious editing as it is padded out with too much repetitive description.
Thanks to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks for the opportunity to read this book and I enjoyed it, took a bit for me to get into as not my usual read. But when I did I wa a gripped

I can see why this book has had such fabulous reviews.
It’s a book that makes your heart beat that little bit faster with such a gripping plot and characters.
Unpredictable, scary, many twists and turns
Dr Anna Fox is now a recluse and is also a sufferer of acrophobia. - new neighbours The Russell’s move in and Anna cannot help but to be super nosey.
However what she sees will shock you to the core.
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Thank you to both NetGalley and Harper Collins uk for my eARC in exchange for my honest unbiased review

It’s been ten months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside.

Anna’s lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family, they are an echo of the life that was once hers.

But one evening, a scream rips across the silence, and Anna witnesses something horrifying. Now she must uncover the truth about what really happened. But if she does, will anyone believe her? And can she even trust herself?

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC.

A debut novel from A J Finn. After the first chapter, I was pretty hooked and had been drawn in by the reclusive world of Anna and wanted to know more. It did take a while for it to grow on me but, although a little predictable in parts, I thought this was a commendable effort. There is more to this than meets the eye and you go through phases of wondering what to believe and - at times - even not really caring much for Anna. Stick with it and you should enjoy.

Debut thriller by A J Finn and what a fantastic first book this is ! We meet Dr Anna Fox who is agoraphobic and hasnt been out of the house in the last 11 months, she lives alone now but talks to her husband Ed and young daughter Olivia most days . What keeps her going whilst a prisoner in her own home is her extensive collection of black and white films that she watches, her beloved bottles of wine and the intriguing lives of her neighbours viewed through her camera lens. Anna likes a drink and it’s never to early or late to have a glass of wine and most of her meals are the liquid sort , so with that and her cocktail of medication that she self doses her life is blurry at the best of times. A new family moves in and we meet The Russell’s , they intrigue her but one day she witnesses something through the lens at the Russell’s house but no one believes her, not the police ,not Ed, not David who lodges in the apartment in the basement not even the Russell’s , alone in this huge house can she be sure of what she saw ....... if indeed she did see it , I won’t spoil it with what happens next but you need to read this book . It wasn’t one of those books that I thought wow from the start but nonetheless it is a fantastic book and worthy of the 4/5 stars I have given it.
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Why did I wait so long to read this?!
Started steady, not slow, and I was unsure. Then it starts barrelling into creepy, paranoid, fast paced, OH WAIT ITS 1AM AND I'M STILL READING frenzied chapters.
When I think fast paced, unputdownable thriller, I think of books like this.

There has been so much hype around this book which usually I’ll avoid mainly because in the past I’ve been disappointed but having been pleasantly surprised by several books last year I thought I’d try and read it. Plus there’s a movie coming out soon!

Anna has been stuck in her house for ten months with little contact from the outside world apart from her tenant in the basement flat of her house. She’s taken to watching her neighbours without their knowledge. Her interest is peeked when a new family, the Russell’s move in and soon she becomes obsessed with them. One evening she witnesses something terrible but can she trust what she saw?

*Unpopular opinion alert* I didn’t much like this book.

I think I may have put too much expectations on it, especially when I heard it was like Rear Window, my all time favourite Hitchcock movie, but, for me anyway, it didn’t quite deliver.

It has everything I usually like in a psychological thriller. An unreliable witness with more issues than I have unread books (that’s a lot), she’s an alcoholic agoraphobic with a pill problem, and a head scratching mystery. But I felt a bit of a disconnect between myself and the book.

I did however like Anna but I also felt very sorry for her. She’s trapped in her house, a prison of her own making, with nothing much to do apart from play online chess and help other agoraphobic people in an online forum or watch old black and white movies. She’s also her own worst enemy, especially as she’s a psychologist herself, and knows that mixing booze and prescription drugs is a bad idea.

The beginning starts off so slow that I genuinely had to force myself to read on but I will say that the second half gets a lot more interesting with a slightly quicker pace.

Overall it wasn’t really my cup of tea and biscuits but maybe I’ll enjoy it more when I watch the film.

I'm a little late to the party as the hardback hit the shelves back at the beginning of last year. However, I'm glad I finally got round to this, as although I had some quibbles with it, by the end it was a good read, and was out in paperback on 27th December 2018.

What is it about? Well, Anna lives in her big, expensive house all by herself, since her husband and daughter left her. She doesn't leave the house, as she is agoraphobic, and going along the lines of becoming an alcoholic too. Anna spends her days looking out of her windows at her neighbours, spying on what they are doing, and generally living her life through them. One day, Anna sees something criminal happen in one of her neighbours houses and that's when her life becomes embroiled in this slow-burn, suck-you-in-by-the-end thriller!

We've seen a swathe of books come through in recent years that have an unreliable woman witness to a crime, and the subsequent disbelief that comes from their families and the authorities. So I was slightly sceptical of this going in, as I wasn't a fan of Gone Girl or Girl on a Train. This has been compared to them, and in fact Gillian Flynn called it 'Astounding. Thrilling. Lovely and amazing...'

I read this over a week and must say that at the start I was finding it difficult to carry on. It was such a slow burner. I don't think anything remotely interesting happened until about 40% of the way in. The story takes such a long time to get going. We learn about Anna and what she is doing, why she is stuck in her home - well, we aren't told the exact reason until later on, but we get the agoraphobia detail. It goes through a week or two of descriptions of what she is seeing out of her windows. We learn that she is a bit of an alcoholic and that she doesn't take her meds consistently. It all happens very fast at the end.

I didn't like Anna from the start. She is annoying, she doesn't help herself in any way. We do feel sorry for her, she's had it rough, hence the mental issues. But I just didn't connect with her. She's lonely and sad, and misses her family terribly.

"I might head down and switch on my own TV.... Or I might view it right here, on his set, through the lens. I decide to do that."

I felt like there was a lot of filler, before we got to anything good happening. But when it happened, it happened fast!

AJ Finn writes in short sharp chapters. This is good, it means we can read it and stop without feeling the drag of having a to finish a chapter first, because it's only a couple of pages anyway.

I would recommend this to psychological thriller fans, just don't expect an action packed thrill ride, it's more of an in-your-head one that takes a long time to build and then ends with a bang :)

I started this book a few times, before I really got into it. I was exactly the same with Gone Girl, and s with GG, I am so glad I persevered with this book. It ticks all of the boxes of what you want from a psychological thriller. Tense, claustrophobic, and full of twists. Recommended.

Almost every other book seems to be touted as the next big psychological thriller but this one is actually worthy of the title. Absorbing and gripped, I couldn't put this down once I'd started. It was incredibly well-written with a noir vibe that had me rapidly turning the pages. I would definitely recommend this!

The premise of this novel grabbed me right away. I know what it is to fear leaving the house and to therefore become a prisoner in your own home so I felt sure I was going to love this book. Anna has many issues and as such comes across as an unreliable narrator so when she sees something in the house opposite you can’t be sure if everything was as she said it was. The tension ratches up from this point on and you find yourself on the edge of your seat wondering how things are going to to turn out for Anna. This was a good read. I did work out what was going on quite early in the book so some of the suspense was then lacking for me but having said that there were still reveals to come that had my mind spinning. This was a good read and I’m looking forward to reading whatever the author publishes next!

Great suspense with the twists and turns of this book. It left you guessing up until the last as to what had happened and who was the villain in it all. Very clever writing.

A bit slow at the start but thankfully it picked up and overall I enjoyed it. It's a bit like Girl on the Train but in this instance Anna Fox won't leave her house as she is suffering from agraphobia so she spends her time watching out of her window.

As it was a little slow I can only give this one 4 stars but I look forward to the next book by this author, it can only get better.

Very enjoyable, although some of the twists were easily guessed. Tense, pacy and a protagonist I liked. I do love an unreliable narrator, and Anna was a great example.

Very readable and the tension builds up well from the beginning. I did find some parts repetitive and felt that one or two of the twists were obvious. .But overall a good beach-type read.

This book reminded me a little of the Girl on the Train, in respect of the woman watching people through a window and seeing their lives happen before her. Only difference is, this poor woman is trapped in her own home due to her own phobias and anxieties.
This set the tone for the thriller read of the year!
Recommended.