The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, January 5th 2021
- Genre: Thriller
- Format: eARC
- Page Count: 304 pages
- My Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5)
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// tl;dr: very cishet & white (0 queer characters & 0 poc); messed up world of rich people and master manipulators with mysterious deaths
Content warnings: on-page murder, mentions of drowning, blackmail, manipulation, forced captivity, infidelity, blood, alcohol abuse
[background music: taylor swift’s no body, no crime]
Everything is a sham and our seemingly lovable characters are actually master manipulators.
It’s thrilling to read, and I couldn’t stop at all.
Jane (23), who grew up in the foster care system until she aged out, walks dogs for the rich people in Thornfield Estates. When by chance she meets Edward “Eddie” Rochester (30s), a handsome recent widower who doesn’t entirely fit in with the rest of the neighborhood, she desperately wants him—him and the new life he could provide—because no one should ever know that Jane isn’t really Jane. But she isn’t the only one who has dark secrets from the past.