I found most of the stories uninspiring and only one of them had anything to do with a bookclub. Although the cause is worthy (Supporting Breast Cancer Care and they get extra in the score for that) I honestly only really enjoyed one story and that was the one that involved a bookclub. Mediocore a...
This slightly odd novel is an attempt to complete a story left behind unfinished by Charlotte Bronte. Unfortunately it didn't really work as a "proper" Bronte novel (I'm quite sure she wouldn't have wandered into the territory of enforced child prostitution!), and although it was a fairly entertaini...
This book was based off an unfinished manuscript of Charlotte Bronte...although the story was good, the author failed to "capture" the writing style of her..although the book said it did.
When Charlotte Brontë, author of the classic novel "Jane Eyre", died in 1855, she left behind 20 pages of a manuscript of a new novel, along with some other scraps of pieces she had been working on. Almost 150 years later in 2003, Irish author Clare Boylan took it upon herself to complete what Charl...
An old adage says that some good things are better left alone – and I've certainly found this to be true here, because although this "Finbar" sequel was devised and edited by Dermot Bolger, who also oversaw the original project, I cared decidedly less for this book than I did for the first "Finbar" ...
Clare Boylan's attempt to finish Charlotte Bronte's novel is disappointing. Unsurprisingly, it reads like a historical novel rather than a Bronte novel and I found it slow and boring.
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