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'[Morgan holds] nerve and reason where many a Brontë biographer fails...brilliant...moving...superb...A lovely book [which] deserves a wide readership' (Guardian )
'Seemingly effortlessly, Jude Morgan breathes such life and vigour into their stories that you are totally drawn into their world...I cannot commend it enough' (Daily Mail )
'Completely involving, absorbing. Full of insight and very accomplished... I loved reading it' (Hilary Mantel )
'Seemingly effortlessly, Jude Morgan breathes such life and vigour into their stories that you are totally drawn into their world...I cannot commend it enough' (Daily Mail )
'Completely involving, absorbing. Full of insight and very accomplished... I loved reading it' (Hilary Mantel )
'Quite simply the best book about the Brontës I have ever read'
(Juliet Barker, author of The Brontës: A Life in Letters )Product Description
Charlotte. Emily. Anne. The Brontë sisters - the drama, the passion, and a story that lives for ever...
Once upon a time there were three sisters, bound by love and suffering, growing up in wild isolation in a lonely house on the moor. Their story will astonish you: their passionate, dangerous closeness; their struggle against the world; their determination to rise above the fates of their parents and their other lost sisters, to become more than the world ever thought they could be. You don’t know their story, but you think they do. They were the Brontës.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An absolute must-read! Historical fiction at its very best,
By lovereading (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Taste of Sorrow (Hardcover)
It's difficult to put into words just how much I loved this novel! Jude Morgan writes beautifully, and his portrayal of these doyennes of English literature is so perceptive, so intimate, that I found myself instantly absorbed by these very real, if extraordinary, women. Each Brontė sister feels restricted, not just by nineteenth-century society and the low expectations of their father, but also by their own fears. As Emily becomes increasingly detached and Anne more introspective, Charlotte's heartbreak and frustrations drive her on, and it is her passion and need for expression that ultimately saves them all. This fascinating family of geniuses is brought spectacularly to life in a masterpiece of historical fiction, and whether you're a Brontėphile or not, I defy you not to be both moved and gripped by it.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Taste of Sorrow (Paperback)
I came to this novel with high hopes and it did its job competently and painstakingly. The writing is assured, if somewhat pedantic as if the author wasn't sure whether to stick with a literary style more in keeping with the times or branch out into a more modern idiom; plus most of the 'facts' about the Brontes are there. But...Like many readers who are likely to be attracted to this novel, I have read all the Bronte novels (and some of the poetry) and indeed, studied them at university, have read every biography, from Mrs Gaskell onwards. I have visited Haworth and its environs--in fact, do not live that far away. So I suppose, I was expecting more. I didn't feel Mr Morgan really understood them. Then again, who could? They were unique in both their collective and individual genius. So why bother? What was missing for me was the sense of time and place. I didn't hear the pens scratching by candlelight into the night, the claustrophobia of those small rooms that overlooked the blackened tombstones; the novels seem to have been written without effort, imagination or thought. Although Jude Morgan rightly tells us how the worlds of Angria and Gondal were as real to them, and as different from, the closed-in valleys of the West Riding, I never felt it. And I don't think he ever did either. It is one thing to write about the women's sense of screaming frustration that they are unable to earn their own living in the way they would have wished had they not been born women, another to actually feel it. To me, Jude Morgan has none of their passion nor their intensity. This is a clinical and rather sweeping overview of their lives from almost start to finish but it didn't tell me anything new. It was a pastiche, a poor imitation. I should imagine that to those not familiar with the Brontes, either their works or their life, would be left totally cold. Charlotte, Emily, Anne and even Branwell deserve better than this.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another winner from Jude Morgan,
By A Customer (Cambridgeshire, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Taste of Sorrow (Hardcover)
I don't know how Jude Morgan does it! Having read the fantastic 'Passion' and 'Symphony' based on the lives of real historical figures, I was very excited to see this book about the Brontes. Once again, this extremely clever writer has pulled all the epic strands together, and created another masterpiece of atmosphere, storytelling and historical research. This is a fine introduction into the early lives of the sisters - not forgetting Branwell, too, and that rare class of book that you just don't want to end. Even given the grim times in which they lived, wrote and died, Morgan manages to derive some humour and hope. The subject matter may be a path well trodden, but Morgan invests such attention-to-detail in the psychological aspects of the 'characters,' that you feel like you actually know them, and experience genuine grief and admiration by the end of the book.It's such a travesty not to see Jude Morgan on the bestseller lists. I hope this book wins this talented author many more fans. I would recommend 'The Taste of Sorrow' without reservation.
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