Bronte's Mistress, A Novel

"[A] meticulously researched debut novel...In a word? Juicy." O, The Oprah Magazine The scandalous historical love affair between Lydia Robinson and Branwell Bront, brother to novelists Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, gives voice to the woman who allegedly brought down one of literature's most famous families.Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson has tragically lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more. All of that changes with the arrival of her son's tutor, Branwell Bront, brother of her daughters' governess, Miss Anne Bront and those other writerly sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Branwell has his own demons to contend withincluding living up to the ideals of his...