-I am just going to write because I cannot help it.- Charlotte Bront-worth 1847. When Mother and her beloved twin brothers are taken by the Haworth -miasma-, to keep her family from the workhouse, 15-year-old Kate takes a cleaning job at The Parsonage, home to the Bront-amily. Kate dreams of being a writer. Poverty and gender stand in her way and Luke Feather who wants to marry her, believes writing stories is a waste of time. When Charlotte Bront-iscovers Kate-s passion for books and writing, an important friendship develops. Kate begins to embrace Charlotte-s radical ideas of equality and is thrilled when she spots clues that the Bront-isters are writing stories. But how can Kate achieve her ambitions to write, while locked in the daily struggle to survive in Haworth? Miriam Halahmy has written a novel which brings the Bront-alive for a new generation of readers. Themes of women-s rights, inequality and poverty are illuminated in beautiful character-driven storytelling. In a world of
