Jane has had a chaotic life, being raised by a number of foster families and in a few group homes. She’s hoping for a new start in Birmingham, Alabama, working as a dog walker for the wealthy families of Thornfield Estates. They’re so wealthy, they don’t even notice that she is helping herself to some of their neglected possessions.
Then she meets Eddie Rochester. He’s handsome, confident, and he’s mourning the recent disappearance of his wife, Bea, and her best friend, Blanche, in what appears to be an accident at their lake house. It is presumed that both have drowned.
Jane and Eddie have chemistry together, and after they start dating, she looks forward to the security—financial and otherwise—that this relationship brings her. But she can’t seem to compete with the image of Bea, a successful businesswoman, that looms over the community—and the house that Jane now shares with Eddie.
As their relationship starts to deepen, questions about what really happened to Bea and Blanche that night continue to emerge. Could Eddie have been responsible? Is Jane in danger? And what secrets does Jane have that could be exposed if Eddie is under suspicion?
This book hooked me from the very first page and didn’t let up. I had some suspicions about how things might play out—I was right in some cases and wrong in others—but I couldn’t stop reading it. It's definitely one of the better thrillers I've read this year.
I read Jane Eyre years and years ago so the comparisons were a little fuzzy for me, and the book definitely isn’t a completely faithful retelling, but I liked the twists Rachel Hawkins brought to the story.
The Wife Upstairs publishes 1/5/2021.
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