Title: The Wife Upstairs
Author: Rachel Hawkins
ASIN: B08BKLVZRJ
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: January 5, 2021
Language: English
File size: 2785 KB
SYNOPSIS
Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name.
But her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. His wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies lost to the deep. Jane can’t help but see an opportunity in Eddie––not only is he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection she’s always yearned for.
Yet as Jane and Eddie fall for each other, Jane is increasingly haunted by the legend of Bea, an ambitious beauty with a rags-to-riches origin story, who launched a wildly successful southern lifestyle brand. How can she, plain Jane, ever measure up? And can she win Eddie’s heart before her past––or his––catches up to her?
With delicious suspense, incisive wit, and a fresh, feminist sensibility, The Wife Upstairs flips the script on a timeless tale of forbidden romance, ill-advised attraction, and a wife who just won’t stay buried. In this vivid reimagining of one of literature’s most twisted love triangles, which Mrs. Rochester will get her happy ending?
The Wife Upstairs is a domestic thriller with many parallels to Jane Eyre's classic and I loved that novel.
In this version we are going to meet characters that were not very pleasant to me but that are a fundamental part of that frivolous world and opulence that the author recreates to give life to the story of these characters who have everything, including lies, deception and manipulation.Jane is a twenty-three year old girl who walks dogs in the luxurious and wealthy neighborhood of Thornfield Estates, there in addition to walking the dogs Jane is stealing objects such as jewelry to their employers who do not even realize or notices that they have disappeared. One rainy day while walking one of the dogs, Jane literally bumps into widower Eddie Rochester.
After that encounter Eddie and Jane start a relationship in which she ends up moving in with him and later getting engaged, but Jane has not been completely honest, she has secrets but so does Eddie, it seems that in the disappearance of his wife Bea and Blanchet, her best friend, there are too many questions and suspicions that will begin to come to light discovering that the Rochester mansion is not exactly the dream so ambitiously desired by Jane.
With a few twists that are not so surprising because they can almost be guessed, the novel manages to catch the reader's attention, or in my case it did.
I enjoyed it very much, if you decide to read it I hope you enjoy it too.
Thank you so much to the author and NetGalley for my ebook copy, i freely give my honest review as a thank you.
Rachel Hawkins (www.rachel-hawkins.com) was a high school English teacher before becoming a full-time writer. She lives with her family in Alabama, and is currently at work on the third book in the Hex Hall series. To the best of her knowledge, Rachel is not a witch, though some of her former students may disagree....
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About Rachel Hawkins
Rachel Hawkins (www.rachel-hawkins.com) was a high school English teacher before becoming a full-time writer. She lives with her family in Alabama, and is currently at work on the third book in the Hex Hall series. To the best of her knowledge, Rachel is not a witch, though some of her former students may disagree....
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