The author (whose real name is Dan Mallory) studied Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley conman novels at Oxford and seems to have modeled his life after the protagonist, leaving a trail of lies behind him on his path to becoming a best-selling novelist. This is the guy who penned the New York Best Seller-turned-Netflix movie The Woman in the Window (under the pseudonym A.J. There’s also a considerable debt to movies like Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window, which Finn cited as an inspiration. It bears “striking similarities” to a novel by Sarah Denzil, Saving April. The story borrows heavily from other Gone Girl imitations, most notably The Girl on the Train. Delays, a bully producer, critical annilhation and an author caught in a web of lies: The Woman in the Window has had one hell of a ride By Jake Kerridge 3:53pm Amy Adams plays. She’s an agoraphobe, living off a diet of red wine, antidepressants and old movies, distanced from her.

And yet, it’s just not very good, and both the book and its author have abounded in controversies. The woman is Anna (Adams), a child psychologist, and the window is in gentrified Harlem. It was the first time an author’s debut novel hit the NYT best-seller list at #1 right off the bat in more than a decade.

Finn’s novel was an immediate hit when it was published in January of 2018. On top of all that, Anna’s excessive drinking is mixing badly with her many medications, causing her to possibly hallucinate (but possibly not?!) the murder of her new neighbor (Julianne Moore-or maybe it’s Jennifer Jason Leigh).Ī.J.

Author of the woman in the window