Emma Brown

ISBN: 0143034839

Author: Boylan, Clare

Condition: Used

When Charlotte Bront 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 Bronts novel, sparking a sensational literary event. With pitch-perfect tone that is utterly true to Bronts 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 girls 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 Londons seamiest alleys. With all the intelligence and pathos of the novels originator, Boylan develops Bronts sketch of a girl without a past into a stunning portrait of Victorian society with a shameful secret at its heart.