The Bronte Girl

"I am just going to write because I cannot help it."����������������������������������������������� �������������������� Charlotte Bront�Haworth 1847. When Mother and her beloved twin brothers are taken by the Haworth `miasma', to keep her family from the workhouse, 15-year-old Kate takes a cleaning job at The Parsonage, home to the Bront� family. Kate dreams of being a writer. Poverty and gender stand in her way and Luke Feather who wants to marry her, believes writing stories is a waste of time. �When Charlotte Bront� discovers Kate's passion for books and writing, an important friendship develops. Kate begins to embrace Charlotte's radical ideas of equality and is thrilled when she spots clues that the Bront� sisters are writing stories. But how can Kate achieve her ambitions to write, while locked in the daily struggle to survive in Haworth?��Miriam Halahmy has written a novel which brings the Bront�s alive for a new generation of readers. Themes of women's rights, inequality and poverty are illuminated in beautiful character-driven storytelling. In a world of increasing inequality and global attacks on women's rights, this is a novel for our time.