Brotherly Sisters

This book was published recently but we are not sure if it is easily available or not:

Brotherly Sisters: Scenes from the Lives and Loves of the Brontës Told In Narrative Poetry
Terence Pettigrew
Bredline Books
ISBN-13: 978-0956673701

For the first time, poetry has been used to tell the story of the Brontës. Based upon published biographies and other archive material, Brotherly Sisters describes their early writings and later masterpieces. Through over sixty narrative poems, it retells several major incidents in their lives which brought them joy and sorrow, triumph and tragedy.
It provides evocative word pictures of the landscape, and of the wild moors which they loved and which provided the background to many of their classic books. In addition to its 15,000 words of narrative poetry, Brotherly Sisters contains a summary of their lives which references each poem to its place in the narrative. It also contains colour plates of some of the best-known portraits of the Brontës, along with photographs taken by the author on his many trips to Yorkshire during the preparation of this book.

Hertfordshire Life publishes a brief review of the book:

The Brontë sisters – Anne, Emily and Charlotte – are known the world over for their tales of romance and wind-swept moors. Their story has been told numerous times but never before in verse, until now. Terence Pettigrew’s book Brotherly Sisters reveals scenes from the lives and loves of the Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell, told in narrative poetry with 61 poems charting their lives. This is the latest work of Terence, from Welwyn, whose earlier published books include biographies of screen actors Humphrey Bogart and Trevor Howard.

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