The Wife Upstairs
Rachel Hawkins, 2021
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
A grifter's voice, a gated community, and a rich man whose wife is missing: a Jane Eyre retelling with the charm turned up and the ethics stripped out.
Feels like dread, curiosity and humor. About identity, morality and power.
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The difference between wanting a new life and fleeing an old one.
I was looking for something new. I was. Because I was running from something old. Rachel Hawkins.Hawkins taught high-school English in Alabama before writing; The Wife Upstairs was her first adult novel after a run of YA fantasy.
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- What is The Wife Upstairs like?
- Feels like dread, curiosity and humor. About identity, morality and power.
- What should I read after The Wife Upstairs?
- If you liked The Wife Upstairs, try The Boyfriend (Freida McFadden), The Hawthorne Legacy (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) and Behind Closed Doors (B.A. Paris).
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The terrifying calm of a thought you never chose to have.
If I grabbed her head and gave it a solid twist to the left, I could break her neck. It wouldn’t even be hard to do.
The Boyfriend · Freida McFadden
A rule for surviving being left, and the cost folded inside it.
The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.
The Hawthorne Legacy · Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Perfect manners can be the most frightening thing about a person.
We go downstairs and in the hall, he takes my coat from the cupboard and holds it open while I slip my arms into it. In the drive outside, he holds the car door for me and waits until I’m in. As he closes it behind me, I can’t help thinking it’s a shame he’s such a sadistic bastard, because he has wonderful manners.
Behind Closed Doors · B.A. Paris
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