Strange secrets abound in the ramshackle house. When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance between young girl and austere widowed employer. Īn amusing, wry homage to Jane Eyre by one of the best novelists of the twentieth century. But conventions are subverted in this atmospheric novel: one of its worlds is suffused with classical scholarship and literary romance, but the other is chaotic, quarrelsome and even farcical.
An amusing, wry homage to Jane Eyre by one of the best novelists of the twentieth century.
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