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Title: Night Visitor

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Gillian White

Narrator: Dina Pearlman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

During their thirty years of marriage, Rose Redfern has confided everything (well, nearly everything) to Michael, and is certain that he would never hide anything from her. That's why it's such a shock when, shortly before Rose and Michael are set to take a romantic trip to Venice, she receives strong evidence that he's having an affair with a woman their daughters' age. Rose feels emotionally unmoored, and her sense of betrayal swiftly turns vengeful. She stumbles across a stash of powerful barbiturates, previously used to medicate an epileptic dog, and wonders if she might not find a new use for themBut is Michael truly unfaithful to Rose, or is someone seeking to destroy the Redferns' lives - and can that person be stopped before it's too late? Night Visitor is a frighteningly plausible scenario of how secrets and jealousy can tear people apart.

Members Reviews:

Quintessential Dysfunctional Family & Others

A sadistic novel to be sure. One character notes how difficult it is to sleep when reading Steven King too close to bedtime. Ditto for the "Night Visitor." Pages and pages of sadism and self-pity, then an ending so quick it was as though the author had run out of ways to torture and tease the reader. If I had had the book to read, would have skipped ahead to the end [unheard of for me]; however, I listened to Jilly Bond's narration all the way through. She's good, the author is not [particularly talented]. The author demands complete suspension of disbelief, of all common sense. It's one thing to get pulled into a character's craziness, another to assume the rest of the character's world will follow suit. Example, the family MD believes everything Rose tells him, caves in totally to all of her refusals, never checks with any medical staff or the hospital in Venice. Whether the family has NIH or private insurance, neither would have provided nursing care without tests/better documentation than the MD's say so. The plot begins understandingly enough and then devolves into nauseating sadism. The wimpyness of the family members and of the MD are pitiful excuses to keep the tortured plot lumbering along. One of those books that momentarily seems to have all loose ends tied up, but a few minutes after "The End,"

I found myself repeatedly saying, "wait a minute here, what about...?" Jilly Bond, however, is very good. And I stayed with her to the end.

Just be honest.

I enjoyed this book alright, but I really hated the main character. Admittedly, I don't think a world exists where you're supposed to like her or sympathize with Rose in any way. I definitely don't recommend this book to people that have issues with that kind of thing, because Rose is just as despicable as they come and feels totally justified in her actions. But Gillian White is really great at writing characters like that.

I also don't recommend the book to people that need a firm resolution and for the bad guys to get their comeuppance at the end. I guess that's the way it happens in life, though.

I liked this book, but for the same reasons it drove me crazy, it was telling a pretty clear message - be honest, don't keep secrets, else some crazy consequences might find you.

A fantastic read...

This was my first experience of Gillian White. And I must say; I will definetly be reading her other works.