![]() ![]() These are tanned, athleisure housewives, not the cooking-baking kind. The southern setting is amazing, with all the neighborhood housewives gossiping about the tragic widower romancing the dogwalker. I really thought the whole crazy-wife-in-the-attic wouldn’t transfer to modern times, but uh… it’s not a spoiler if it’s in the title, right? It’s a modern southern gothic, full of secrets and keeping up appearances. If the names haven’t tipped you off, most of this novel is a modernized Jane Eyre, but set in the McMansion south. Jane is attracted to Eddie from the start, but she knows that he’s also incredibly wealthy, between his own construction company and his late wife’s lifestyle business, too, and his wealth could make all of her problems go away. ![]() The friend’s body was recovered, but Bea’s never was. Eddie’s wife, Bea, died in tragically mysterious circumstances, a boating accident with a friend. Jane’s not exactly a klepto, but sometimes the wealthy Thornfield wives carelessly leave their jewelry lying around and don’t pay a lot of attention to the dog-walker, and it’s very tempting for a broke girl with no savings.Įddie Rochester is one of the homeowners, and a handsome, wealthy widower. In The Wife Upstairs, by Rachel Hawkins, Jane, a former foster kid, is a dog-walker for several families in the gated community of Thornfield Estates. ![]()
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