So I was delighted to get a review copy of this book, which is about Anne Bronte, the youngest and least-known of the sisters. I also went to see her play, How to Date a Feminist, in London last year – it was a joy: funny and clever and an amazing 2-person production. which says it all really, doesn’t it? I must have given away half a dozen copies of the book, it was my goto birthday present that year, and all the recipients loved it too. Samantha Ellis likes the same heroines, and books, that Clothes in Books does.
So she chose to write a different story about love, a story that would help her get past the unhappiness of Thorp Green, and fall back in love with life.Ĭommentary: I loved Samantha Ellis’s previous book, How to be a Heroine, as you can tell from my fan letter blogpost. Anne looked at Charlotte trying to turn Heger into the Duke of Zamorna, Branwell imagining he was Northangerland seducing Mrs Robinson, and even at Byron believing the only true love was impossible, taboo and antisocial, and she realised that bad love was a story people got stuck in…Īnne realized the stories she’d been told would make her miserable, if she let them.
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