And none of it is whole it’s being eaten away. The Rochester décor is “expensive but useless crap,” according to Jane, much of it from his dead wife’s lucrative Southern lifestyle brand, Southern Manors. The neighborhood is indeed beautiful, but behind closed doors, particularly those belonging to handsome, enigmatic widower Eddie Rochester, all is not as it seems. I couldn’t look away from the impending devastation.Īppearances can’t be trusted in the gated Stepford-like community - the “coddled bubble” - of Thornfield Estates, where twenty-something Jane Bell works as a dog-walker for the well-heeled housewives on the Neighborhood Beautification Committee, or NBC. Reading Rachel Hawkins’ adult debut The Wife Upstairs, a reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre set in modern-day Birmingham, Alabama, is like rubbernecking in real time at a multi-car pile-up on the interstate.
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