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    The Woman Who Ran

    Written by Sam Baker

    Narrated by Jenny Funnell

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    ‘Wildly gripping and unputdownable. This is a brilliant book’ Marian Keyes

    How do you escape what you can’t remember?

    What is making Helen Graham so jumpy and evasive? Newly arrived in a tiny Yorkshire village, she finds the locals’ curiosity her worst nightmare.

    Looking over her shoulder every day, she tries to piece together her past before it can catch up with her. But with everything she knows in fragments, from her marriage to her career as a war photographer, how can she work out who to trust and what to believe? Most days she can barely remember who she is…

    She can run. But can she hide?

    Praise for The Woman Who Ran:

    ‘Disquieting, thought-provoking …keeps twisting and turning as it hurtles towards a hair-raising climax’
    Guardian

    ‘Clever and absorbing’
    Stylist

    'Superbly executed, with a creeping sense of dread that builds to an explosive finish' Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 28, 2016
    ISBN9780007472345
    Author

    Sam Baker

    Sam Baker was Editor in Chief of Red magazine for six years, and in 2015 she co-founded and launched The Pool with Lauren Laverne. Sam is married to the novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood and lives in Winchester.

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    • 4/5
      The Woman Who Ran – A Psychological Thriller That Keeps You GuessingSam Baker’s The Woman Who Ran is a breathtaking psychological thriller that will keep you guessing from page one to the end. This is an excellent thriller about a woman with severe memory loss, who cannot remember much but knows that if she does not run something will happen to her. The story is about a woman who has to come to terms with her past, to be able to deal with her present and future situation.Helen is unable to remember why she was in a burning apartment in Paris, who the body was, and how she ended up back in England. Everything is a blank, she is suffering from migraines and winds up on the Yorkshire Moors in Wildfell Hall all alone, and with a psychotic cat she calls Ghost. She does not know why but she knows she needs to keep quiet about who she is and if she could remember who she is running from.Gil has been ‘retired’ from the newspaper where he has been a journalist for more years than he cares to remember. He lives in the country village where he grew up, where everybody knows your business, and he cannot really get in to the retired life, other than drinking, smoking and reading a book.There is something about Helen that draws Gil in, his journalist instinct kicks in and he wants to know who she is and what she is hiding from. He slowly pieces together the who she is and with Helen’s own words why she is at Wildfell Hall. As they both dig deep, people are talking whether it is too much, who really knows? Helen cannot help feel that she is being watched not just by the village but someone else. Her only way to deal with things is to run over the moors, see if it clears her mind and can relax her.The book has a fair pace about it as the story moves on and more of the story of Paris is recovered from Helen’s memory. The more of her past that comes back to her the more she realises that she could also be in a great deal of danger, which leads to the book’s shattering conclusion. It will take your breath away, as you see it all through the eyes of Helen and Gil.The Woman Who Ran is an excellent psychological thriller that will grip you from the first page to the last, and will leave you breathless at the relentless pace. It is clear that a journalist has written this book as the journalist here is a kind, ‘honest’ guy, which would be a first, but he works well in the story. A great book for all those that a love Psychological Thriller.
    • 4/5
      Perfectly executed thriller. Two great protagonists.
    • 3/5
      Inspired by Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, this novel is set in contemporary England. Photographer Helen Graham rents a run down house in a village where she hopes she can remain isolated and anonymous. Gilbert Markham, a recently retired journalist, is intrigued by the stranger in his village and begins to unravel her mysterious past.As I hadn't previously read Bronte's novel, I would not have realised this book was a similar story retold for a different era. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall deals with the issues of alcoholism and abuse. Published in 1848, this novel was a remarkable achievement considering it addressed such taboo subjects. Long-winded, verbose and exceptionally long sentences- it was certainly a challenge to read. However, I'm glad that I made the effort and can now appreciate the cleverness of Baker's modern day spin on the tale.
    • 3/5
      Helen Graham has come to live at Wildfell House, a dilapidated and huge house in a small village in the Yorkshire Dales. She's seen as a mysterious person by gossips in the village and is keen to keep it that way but Gilbert Markham, a recently retired journalist, is very interested in her and her story. There's a very clear nod to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall here, in both storyline and characters. I do wonder if trying to fit a story around another one actually hindered the author a little too much. Mostly this was a book that kept me turning the pages and it's an easy read in that respect, but it did lack something for me. There was very little suspense, yet there should have been quite a lot. There are a lot better psychological thrillers out there but nevertheless it was a reasonable read.