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2000s: Anna’s lifeline to the real world is her window
The Woman in the Window
What you need to know before your trail
It’s been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside.
Anna’s lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family of three, they are an echo of the life that was once hers.
But one evening, a frenzied scream rips across the silence, and Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see. Now she must do everything she can to uncover the truth about what really happened. But even if she does, will anyone believe her? And can she even trust herself?
Locations
Reset- America/ USA - NY- NYC
- A: Central Park
- B: 81st street
- C: 71st Street
- D: Empire State Building
Travel Guide
New York
A novel in the same vein as Hitchcock, Rear Window. New York may be the city that doesn’t sleep but what’s it like when it’s the city what can’t sleep. A woman who lives awake, unable to sleep or leave the house following a trauma.
The house:
“The house towers above me, the black mouth of the front door, the front steps like a tongue unspooled; the cornices form even brows above the window.”
Agoraphobia, trauma and self imposed exile spent playing chess online, learning French, drinking far too much and watching classic vintage movies.
The trapped and frustrated main character’s love of these films adds to the overall black and white atmosphere – where the main action often took place in one room of a posh townhouse.
The films also have an ethereal tone on the setting as the film world merges into the real one. It takes on a Hitchcockian theme.
It’s definately the city that may never sleep again
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Woman in the Window
Destination: New York City Author/Guide: A. J. Finn Departure Time: 2000s
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