false 60160949 51332 144852 0143034839 9780143034834 58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166497m/144852.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172166497s/144852.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144852.Emma_Brown 3.56 249 Jane Eyre. One hundred fifty years later, Clare Boylan has finished Brontë’s novel, sparking a sensational literary event. With pitch-perfect tone that is utterly true to Brontë’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 Brontë’s sketch of a girl without a past into a stunning portrait of Victorian society with a shameful secret at its heart.]]> 23612 3.49 319 74 1036615 4.04 136270 7861 2003 4 0 false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 07:41:09 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 10:49:44 -0700 2009