“You will never look at the Brontë sisters as mere writers again. I highly recommend this novel.” - Austenesque Reviews Her graceful story telling is seamless and entertaining. An excellent combination of truth and conjecture that is a gratifying and magnetizing read! … I love reverent and precise representation of these beloved authors. “AN ENCHANTING LOVE STORY FOR CHARLOTTE BRONTE … 5 stars.

“James takes the biography of Brontë and sketches it into a work of art … The availability of specific, passionate details is what gives the book its main pull … A CAN’T-MISS NOVEL for Brontë fans and historical fiction buffs alike.” - Sacramento Book Review

This is BOUND TO FASCINATE admirers of the doomed Brontës.” - Library Journal “Faithful to the writer’s language, time, and place. For fans of biographical tales and romance, Syrie’s story of Charlotte offers it all: longing and yearning, struggle and success, the searing pain of immeasurable loss, and the happiness of a love that came unbidden and unsought.” - Jane Austens World It is Charlotte's story, just as she might have written it herself. 'Who is this man who has dared to ask for my hand? Why is my father so dead set against him? Why are half the residents of Haworth determined to lynch him-or shoot him?'įrom Syrie James, the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, comes a powerfully compelling, intensely researched literary feat that blends historical fact and fiction to explore the passionate heart and unquiet soul of Charlotte Bronte.

and her intense, dramatic relationship with the man she comes to love, the enigmatic Arthur Bell Nicholls. Living a secluded life in the wilds of Yorkshire with her sisters Emily and Anne, their drug-addicted brother, and an eccentric father who is going blind, Charlotte Bronte dreams of a real love story as fiery as the ones she creates.īut it is in the pages of her diary where Charlotte exposes her deepest feelings and desires-and the truth about her life, its triumphs and shattering disappointments, her family, the inspiration behind her work, her scandalous secret passion for the man she can never have. Though poor, plain, and unconnected, Charlotte Bronte possesses a deeply passionate side which she reveals only in her writings-creating Jane Eyre and other novels that stand among literature's most beloved works. I have, in my secret heart, long dreamt of an intimate connection with a man every Jane, I believe, deserves her Rochester.'

The Secret by Charlotte Brontë