A scandalous affair. A woman scorned by history. Will the original Mrs Robinson finally be redeemed?
Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson - mistress of Thorp Green Hall - has recently lost both her younger daughter and her mother. Now, with here teenage girls rebelling, a hateful mother-in-law breathing down her neck, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is a ghost in her own home, encaged in corsets and curtains. A taste of freedom arrives with her son's handsome new tutor, Branwell Brontë - brother of her daughter's governess, Anne, and of the aspiring writers Charlotte and Emily. A soulful, temperamental poet nearly half Lysdia's age, Branwell is sensuous and alive one minute and miserable the next, wasting away in the shadow of his talented sisters. Soon, Branwell and Lydia find a dangerous match in each other, spinning vortex of passion and peril that threatens to consume everything she has built.
Deliciously rendered and capticatingly told, Brontë's Mistress skillfully reimagines the illicit affair that has divided Brontë enthusiasts for generations, giving voice to the woman accused of destroying literature's most beloved family.
Paperback: 298 pages
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781982137243
Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.2 x 20.9 cm