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This is about the story of Branwell Brontë and his supposed affair with Lydia Robinson. His sister Anne is working for the family and she suggests her brother to the family as a tutor. It was an interesting read. I like to read about the Brontë family.

DNF @ 41%. I was excited about this story when I got it months ago from NetGalley and this is my third attempt to read it. I have tried to like it, but Lydia Robinson is so insufferable and nasty and jealous, I just cannot care about her perspective or her affair with the Bronte Sisters‘ brother Branwell. Mine is an unpopular opinion though. There is potential here but I could not find it in myself to keep trying to push through.

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Many thanks to @finola_austin , @tyndalehouse and @sarahmorgenthaler.author with the friends from the Huntington Beach Public Library in California for these amazing books.

An extra shout out to @tyndalehouse for including a gift card to one of my favorite independent bookstores, @quailridgebooks in Raleigh!

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So excited to read this book raves everywhere.Thanks Fiona Austin for my autographed copy.📚💐

I won another book. Looking forward to reading this book.

This was good but it reads more like a Jane Austen novel than something from one of the Bronte sisters. Although that would be difficult to manage with historical fiction about real people.

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I tried. Really, I did. It's just boring, and Lydia is impossible to be interested in. I'd much rather read Juliet Barker's biography of the family again. Now, that's a good time :)

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I enjoyed Austin's debut novel and look forward to reading other biographies about the Brontes that Austin mentions in her Author's Notes that show that this affair was possible. I would recommend this book to those who love historical fiction.

It‘s hard when the protagonist of your story is unlikeable—but it appears that Lydia was in fact a pretty awful person and to write this story, this retelling of Branwell Brontë‘s affair with his employer‘s wife, that had to come out. I found the details in the story fascinating even if the novel felt a little slow at times. If you‘re interested in the Brontës, I recommend this.

I didn't know the Bronte sisters had a younger brother and one who dared to begin an affair with a married woman. Told from the mistress, Lydia Robinson, the historical fictional novel explores the expectations of female roles during the 1800's and the scandalous need for rebellion.

I was drawn to this book because of the Brontë connection and due to the fact that I‘m a sucker for historical fiction centered on real people. I got all of that and a whole lot more than I was expecting.

My full review of this exceptional debut novel is on my blog:

https://sprainedbrain.blog/2020/08/07/review-brontes-mistress-by-finola-austin/

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Yorkshire 1843. I needed to read this as I loved Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Fiona Austin has done excellent research of an alleged affair between Branwell Bronte, brother of the famous sisters, and Lydia Robinson, Mistress of Thorp Green Hall. Branwell was a tudor for Ned Robinson, Lydia's son. He was 25 and a passionate poet and Lydia was 43 with a cold marriage which turned her into an adulteress.

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I got this book from #NetGalley and will be reviewing it this month. It will be published on August 4th 2020. It does have a side profile and I hope to find out more about this person.

Thanks to Edelweiss for the advance copy! This book comes out August 2020.

It was good. I would not say great and probably will not push it on a bunch of people, but I was so interested in Lydia and her character throughout. She is shown as very human and flawed. I did not even know there was a Bronte brother until I saw this! Fascinating (tragic) his life and now to read more articles on him.
This is a fictional book.

This is exciting because I know nothing about the Brontes, didn't even know there was a brother much less that he was a scoundrel!