Jane as a protagonist is confusing, but on the whole well-written. This books borrows tropes from many classic novels the reader is by turns delighted and vaguely irritated by the continued references. As Jane and Eddie get closer, she becomes more and more entranced by the enigma of his ex-wife. She bumps (literally) into Eddie Rochester, a wealthy widower whose wife died in a boating accident. The novel opens on our protagonist Jane, a dog-walker in a fancy gated community with a mysterious past. Jane Eyre being one of my favourite books, I’ll admit that scepticism was rife – but not altogether unjustified. The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins is such a re-telling, loosely based on the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. That’s not to suggest that it is impossible to write a good re-telling there are just certain elements that need to be present for it to be successful, to make readers glad that it exists and not think to themselves “why didn’t I just read the original?”. Society appears bereft of original ideas. Walk into a bookshop and take a step you’re likely to have walked past at least three re-tellings, one of them probably fairy tale based.
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