Is she mentally unstable? Is she an innocent victim of others who take advantage of her naivety? As the story unfolds, we see that Rose is telling her story in retrospect, as part of a therapy for her doctor, but where she is and why she is there is a mystery until the end.įirst time author Rindell does a wonderful job of setting her story in historical context. I found myself constantly wondering whether to believe her assessments of people and situations, whether any feelings of sympathy were misplaced. They both are narcissistic, condescending to those around them (who never seem to measure up to their standards), proudly holding ideas that are no longer popular, not seeing how they appear to others, assigning selfish and hostile motives to others. Rose serves as narrator and the question you ask throughout the narrative is do you trust her? Rose reminds me of the narrator in The Dinner.
How does Odalie afford her apartment, clothes and decadent lifestyle? What is the truth about her past? Odalie introduces Rose to the modern world but something seems amiss. Rose is initially wary (and judgmental) of her, but they become friends and eventually roommates. She seems to mesmerize everyone around her. She is a self-possessed, modern woman who is also blessed with beauty and charisma. Odalie stands out for her new fashion and fine jewelry, and later for her fashionably bobbed hair. Her life changes dramatically once the new typist arrives.
She is not overly friendly or familiar with her fellow typists and is especially cold toward the young lieutenant detective, who frequently tries to engage Rose in light conversation. She greatly admires the old-fashioned, paternalistic sergeant whom she works alongside and places him on a pedestal. Having grown up in an orphanage, Rose has no family or friends to speak of and spends a lot of time in her own head. Rose is the fastest typist and a straight-laced, no-nonsense kind of girl in her early 20s. She and several other women have this new kind of work, taking confessions in shorthand and then transcribing them for the records.
The action takes place in 1925 New York, in a Lower East Side precinct where Rose Baker works as a typist. The Oscar-nominated Knightley was last seen in Misbehaviour and recently shot the festive comedy Silent Knight, where she stars alongside Annabelle Wallis (b), Roman Griffin Davis ( Jojo Rabbit), and her Official Secrets co-star Matthew Goode.The Other Typist is a fascinating new novel that fans of The Great Gatsby, Gone Girl and The Dinner will want to read. Ilene Chaiken ( The L Word, Empire) will serve as showrunner on The Other Typist, while Knightley and Rindell will serve as executive producers alongside Oly Obst of 3 Arts. Knightley will portray Rose, “a prim, unworldly police department typist gets drawn into the shady world of her glamorous new co-worker, Odalie (Knightley) but when the ultimate crime is committed, it’s uncertain which of the two women was the more treacherous.” The Other Typist is described as a “psycho-sexual suspense thriller” and takes place in New York City during the Prohibition Era.
#The other typist series#
Keira Knightley is returning to the small screen for the first time since 2011’s Neverland, with the British actress set to executive produce and star in a TV series adaptation of Suzanne Rindell’s novel The Other Typist for Hulu.
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