Thornfield Hall: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story (again)

Adèle: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story by Emma Tennant was originally published in 2002. Since then, the book has been reappearing with different names. Last year it was republished, and apparently revised, in the UK with the name: The French Dancer's Bastard: The Story of Adèle from Jane Eyre. Now, a new paperback edition appears in the US market with another name: Thornfield Hall: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story (Harper Collins Paperbacks). We are a little bit lost and we don't know if this is the revised UK edition... or just the old US edition, now in paperback.

Adele, the daughter of a celebrated Parisian actress, is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mother's former lover. Lonely and ill at ease in the unfamiliar English countryside, she longs to return to the glitter of Paris . . . and to the mother who has been lost to her.

But a small ray of sunshine brightens her eternal gloom when a stranger arrives to care for her—a serious yet intensely loving young governess named Jane Eyre—even as young Adele's curiosity leads her deeper into the shadowy manor, toward the dark and terrible secret that is locked away in a high garret. . . .

Includes fascinating in-depth background material about Charlotte Brontë and the Jane Eyre legacy.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Sequels