The author's descriptive narrative made me feel as though I were right in the middle of 1920s New York. This story took so many twists and wove such a web that I often wasn't sure what was the truth and what was deception.
I loved reading about all of the speakeasies and bathtub gin, the roaring twenties fashion, and the slang that was used in that era. This book fascinated me with all the glitz and glamour of the 1920s. Although Rose has to listen to the details of awful killings, she remains a perfectly poised lady, until one day when a new typist named Odalie enters the picture.
Ilene Chaiken, most famous for creating The L Word, will write and executive produce the series alongside Knightley.Rose Baker is a typist for the NYC police department in the 1920's, typing the confessions of the criminals that come into the precinct. "On the other side of that, I do love history. So if you want a career where it's kind of with more of a global audience, generally speaking in Europe, it's going to be in period drama. I mean, I think partly it's because I've wanted to base my career in Europe, and actually that's what we mostly export. "The characters that are the best for me, have been in period films," Knightley said on BUILD Series in 2019, while promoting her post-war film The Aftermath. She originally began developing the series in 2013, and is no stranger to period dramas, having starred in films like Atonement, Pride & Prejudice, Anna Karenina and The Duchess, among others. While the role of Rose Baker has yet to be cast, Keira Knightley is set to both star as the mysterious flapper Odalie, and play executive producer for The Other Typist. 'The Other Typist' e-book by Suzanne Rindell, $12.99 at Booktopia Who Is In The Cast Of The Other Typist? Then, an alluring fellow stenographer by the name of Odalie (Knightley) joins the typing pool, and Rose finds herself falling under her coquettish spell.
Recording the confessions of the city's biggest criminal is her job, and she does it all while keeping to herself in the male-dominated NYPD.
Inspired by Suzanne Rindell's debut novel The Other Typist, the story commences in Manhattan in 1924 at the height of the Prohbition Era, where the prim, unworldly Rose Baker works as a police department typist on the city's Lower East Side. Intrigued? Keep reading for everything you need to know about the upcoming series, from plot to premiere and everything in between. Seven years later, TV network Hulu is finally adapting the book for the small screen, with Keira Knightley both developing and starring in the series. Based on the 2013 novel of the same name, early critics described the story as a cocktail of 1920s glamour à la The Great Gatsby and a psycho-sexual suspense thriller (with plenty of Hitchcockian twists).
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