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Book cover of The Wife Upstairs
The Wife UpstairsFreida McFadden

Characters in The Wife Upstairs

3 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Sylvia Robinson

    The newly hired live-in caregiver who grows suspicious of the household’s secrets.

Supporting characters

  • Victoria Barnett

    The wife confined to the upper floor by a brain injury, hiding a story she is desperate to tell.

  • Adam Barnett

    Victoria’s charming husband, who hires Sylvia and becomes the focus of mounting suspicion.