The Woman Who Ran by Sam Baker
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I enjoyed this thriller inspired by Anne Bronte’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I found it a much better read than The Girl on the Train which had me crying out with incredulity. Baker uses domestic violence as the taboo area that has friends and family criticising the heroine for leaving her spouse rather than the alcoholism of Bronte’s novel. We only gradually find out about this as Madame Grahame experiences migraines so bad that she has holes in her memory. These are eventually filled in by the investigative work of recently retired journalist Gil. There are some implausible aspects of the plot but I found myself absorbed by the story.