In His Sights

Some days ago we presented the book In His Sights by Kate Brennan. Quoting from our own post:

The New York Times talks about In His Sights by Kate Brennan. A terrible and real story of a woman stalked for more than ten years. An unexpected and shocking Brontë reference comes out:

Ms. Brennan, then a 41-year-old college writing teacher and Brontë scholar in a biggish city in the Midwest (its real name is not hard to guess from the book), met Paul, a freelance photographer, in 1991 at a party and was impressed by his worldliness. (Andy Newman)

ABC News offers the chance to read an excerpt from the first chapter of the book and it seems that the Brontës play an important role in this novel, particularly Anne Brontë. Which unveils interesting parallelisms between the main topic of the book and Anne's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

It's my last full day in Haworth. I get up early and rush through breakfast at the B and B, passing on a cooked meal, settling for coffee and toast with homemade marmalade. I want to be at the library as soon as the staff opens the doors. Running through the mental list of manuscripts I want to review this morning, I lean against the stone wall on the edge of the parking lot. Just beyond the Georgian parsonage, white cumulus clouds roll over the moors, casting shadows across the grass and heather. (Read more)

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