Alice Feeney is having quite a January. The Netflix limited series His & Hers — adapted from her 2020 psychological thriller — premiered on January 8, 2026, starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal, according to the Wikipedia entry for the His & Hers TV series). That streaming launch arrives within weeks of Feeney's eighth novel, My Husband's Wife, hitting shelves on January 27, 2026, creating one of the more fortuitous confluences of screen and page an author can hope for.
The timing is no accident of the calendar — it reflects a years-long pipeline of rights deals, development, and casting that has now clicked into place simultaneously. All six episodes of the His & Hers limited series are available to stream on Netflix, with Feeney herself telling Netflix's Tudum that "the best of the best have worked so hard to make this a very special show." The ensemble also includes Pablo Schreiber, Rebecca Rittenhouse, and Sunita Mani, giving the adaptation considerable marquee weight.
My Husband's Wife: Feeney's Eighth Novel Arrives Into a Wider Spotlight
My Husband's Wife is a dual-narrative psychological thriller built around a central mystery of identity and belonging — specifically, who has the rightful claim to a house called Spyglass. The novel earned instant Sunday Times bestseller status on publication and arrives trailing a string of major-author endorsements. It is the kind of book that benefits enormously from the author's name carrying real cultural weight — and right now, with Thompson and Bernthal drawing Netflix audiences into Feeney's world, that name recognition is at a new high. For a full assessment of the novel itself, read our review of My Husband's Wife.
The promotional material on Barnes & Noble's listing for the novel describes Feeney as a New York Times bestselling author whose works have been translated into numerous languages and optioned for major screen adaptations — a biography that now has concrete, high-profile validation in the form of the Netflix series.
A Second Adaptation Already in Development — and Why This Matters for Thriller Publishing
The momentum does not stop with Netflix. Deadline reported that production company Carnival — working with Three Pines writer Emilia di Girolamo — is already developing a TV series adaptation of My Husband's Wife itself, announced within days of the novel's publication. That back-to-back announcement is rare: an author seeing one novel premiere as a streaming series while a second, brand-new novel simultaneously enters its own adaptation pipeline.
For the psychological thriller genre broadly, Feeney's trajectory reinforces a pattern that readers of authors like Alex Michaelides — whose The Silent Patient remains a benchmark for the literary locked-room thriller — will recognise well. The domestic mystery with an unreliable narrator has become a reliable pipeline from bestseller list to streaming service, and Feeney is now among its most prominent examples. Similarly, readers drawn to character-driven suspense built around secrets and shifting perspectives — such as those who gravitated toward Liz Moore's The God Of The Woods — will find Feeney operating in a thematically adjacent space, though with a sharply contemporary, dual-voice structure.
What distinguishes the current moment is not merely the Netflix premiere in isolation, but the compounding of visibility: a high-cast streaming adaptation, a new Sunday Times bestseller, and a second adaptation deal announced almost simultaneously. For an author whose career has been built one twist-laden novel at a time, January 2026 marks a genuine inflection point. Want the full verdict on whether My Husband's Wife lives up to that elevated profile? Read our review of the novel.