Brontës around

For the curious and completists out there, we have traced some Brontë-related items that have appeared scattered around some recently published books:

The Gourdmother (Maggie Bruce) (Berkley Books)

Brooklynite Lili Marino takes a cottage in Walden Corners, N.Y., in lieu of payment for a writing job she did for a man she never met, Tom Ford, whose foundation has just gone belly-up. There she has the time and space to cultivate her first love: crafting gourds. She's also becoming surprisingly expert at cutting to the rotten heart of a mystery. Lily is just starting to feel welcomed in Walden Corners when she finds the local high school football coach dead on the first day of hunting season. She had naively thought the most dangerous thing she would have to deal with was a moldy gourd--not a murderer

" ... first thing my hand touched. Wuthering Heights. Was Tom Ford a fan of Emily Brontë? Of her brooding countryside and romantic love, and death to those who defy it ... "

The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook, Second Edition (Paperback) (Kathy Steligo), edited by Carlo Press.
The quote chosen to open the first chapter (Why Mastectomy?) is the well-known Emily Brontë's poem:

"No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see Heaven's glories shine, and faith shines, arming me from fear"

How to Cook Your Daughter: A Memoir (Hardcover) by Jessica Hendra, Blake Morrison

Against the backdrop of the 1970s New York comedy scene, the memoir traces Jessica's journey from a lost and abused child to a young woman struggling with bulimia and anorexia to the mother of two who becomes convinced that challenging her father is the only way to reclaim a life that never seemed her own.

"... over the spot where her illegitimate baby—my sister, Katherine— grows. She is beautiful, her long hair untidily looped in a Bronte-like bun, a concession to the formality of the occasion. My grandparents stand awkwardly on either side of her: my grandfather ..."

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