![]() Part of the story involves a mystery surrounding a missing notebook of Emily's poems. Now a bitter, failed scholar who believes that Branwell was a neglected genius, Symington warily sees Daphne as a possible ally in the rehabilitation of Branwell's literary legacy. Symington, the former librarian and curator at the Bronte Parsonage who was dismissed in disgrace after several important manuscripts went missing. She is also engaged in a strange and strained correspondence with J. She is being haunted by the presence of her own famous literary creation, Rebecca, and also thinks she's being watched by sinister men in trilby hats (her grandfather was George du Maurier who wrote the bestselling novel Trilby, after which the hats were named). Her husband is having a mental breakdown and she's just discovered he's also been having an affair. ![]() Daphne is going through a rough patch in her personal life. The novel combines a modern story with a fictionalized account of the period of Daphne du Maurier's life when she was writing The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte, her biography of the tormented, alcoholic brother of Charlotte, Emily and Anne (being Bronte obsessed myself, this was a book I HAD to read). ![]() it's not clear when it'll be out in Canada - it's published by Bloomsbury which is changing Canadian distributors shortly. I've just finished reading a wonderful novel in this same ve in: Daphne by Justine Picardie (I got my copy from the U.K. ![]()
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