Wild Island, influenced by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, asks the reader to forget the outcome of Jane Eyre and to imagine another ending where Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester didn't marry, and his wife, Bertha, is still alive ...
Harriet Adair, a widow, artist and nurse, is accompanying Anna Rochester (Bertha), Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester to Tasmania (or Van Diemen’s Land as it was known at the time the novel is set) in search of a lost relative.
The decline of Edward Rochester’s health part way into the voyage results in his and Jane Eyre’s transfer
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Not much achieved over the past week. One book read, Season of Light by Katherine McMahon. Again one that I hadn't intended to read just yet. It happened to be downstairs while all my current reads were upstairs and
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I hope you all had a lovely Easter break and had some quality reading time.
This weekly meme is hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date and is a place to share what you've been reading over the past week, what you are currently reading and what you hope to read next.
Sadly not a great week on the reading front with only two books finished, Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor and Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James.
Kate Mildenhall’s debut novel is based on a true story, a tragedy that occurred on Cape St George, New South Wales, Australia, in the late 1880s.
Harriet and Kate are lighthouse keepers’ daughters. Inseparable, they share their daily lives and their inner most secrets. Harriet, the elder by two years, looks forward to a future which involves marriage and motherhood, while Kate yearns for adventures beyond the restrictive world of the tiny community in which they live. Their friendship is tested when McPhail, a fisherman, takes up residence in a hut on the beach, becoming the romantic focus of the two girls.
Life on the Cape is idyllic when the girls are younger.
This weekly meme is hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date and is a place to share what you've been reading over the past week, what you are currently reading and what you hope to read next.
In my part of the world the clocks went back an hour over the week-end as daylight saving ended. Winter is on the way. I'm already missing that extra hour of daylight at the end of the day.
