The Wife Upstairs : A Novel (Hardcover)

from PaulaGalvan

This "who-dune-it" was an up-and-down thrill ride to the very end—smart, sassy, and surprising. When Jane Bell, aka Helen Burns, shows up in the exclusive Thornfield Estates, she's running from a sorted past and hoping for a better future. She thinks life would be perfect if she could only be jus...

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Really enjoyed this! I thought I'd figured it out - unreliable narrator who may be a sociopath meets another potential sociopath. But...there were a couple of twists and at least two I didn't see coming. The ending is ambiguous and while that's not always satisfying, in this case...I thought it w...

from brangwinn

I seldom like a book filled with so many unlikeable characters, but Rachel Hawkins has used their unpleasant characteristics to good advantage in this modern retake on Jane Eyre. You need not have read that classic to be quickly enmeshed in the story of Jane who moves to Birmingham Alabama to res...

from miss.mesmerized

Jane is on the run, she hasn't simply given up her old life, there are things which need to be forgotten und buried and never talked about. When she comes to Thornfield Estates, the McMansion area of Birmingham/Alabama, she sees a life which could hardly differ more from hers. Having grown up as ...

from Desiree_Reads

*SOFT SPOILERS* An entertaining novel with a genuinely surprising climax and conclusion. Dog walker, Jane, can't believe her luck when she catches the eye of the wealthy – you guessed it – Mr. Rochester (Eddie). As Jane gets to know Eddie, she yearns to more about his recently deceased wife, B...