One of Jeanette Winterson's favourite books.
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Hilary Mantel...
‘I read Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre when I was very young and cared less about the love story than about the secret of the woman in the attic. It’s what a story should be – gripping, but have psychological truth and depth.
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'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong!'
This is the story of Jane, an orphan in Victorian England, she is relentlessly bullied and deprived by her aunt and the charity school she is banished to. Yet Jane emerges from a tragic childhood a curious young woman with an indomitable spirit. When she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall it seems Jane has finally met her match in the unconventional Mr Rochester.
But as her feelings for Mr Rochester grow, so do her suspicions that something darker lurks within the walls of this vast mansion... Jane Eyre is the unforgettable Gothic tale of a woman's search for happiness.
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Jane Eyre features in the following genres: eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Classic fiction: general and literary, Family Drama, General Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction
Jane Eyre is available in Paperback, Hardback,
Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Brontë and published by Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House
Jane Eyre has 672 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage Heroines series
£8.99
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