Emma Brown | Clare Boylan
When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855, she left behind twenty pages of a novel that signaled her most compelling work since Jane Eyre. One hundred fifty years later, Clare Boylan has finished Bronte s novel, sparking a sensational literary event. With pitch-perfect tone that is utterly true to Bronte s voice, Boylan delivers a brilliant tale about a mysterious young girl, Matilda, who is delivered to a girls school in provincial England. When everything about the girl s wealthy background turns out to be a fiction, it falls to a local gentleman, Mr. Ellin, and a childless widow, Isabel Chalfont, to begin a quest for her past and her identity that takes them from the drawing rooms of country society to London s seamiest alleys. With all the intelligence and pathos of the novel s originator, Boylan develops Bronte s sketch of a girl without a past into a stunning portrait of Victorian society with a shameful secret at its heart."
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