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Jane Eyre
Nov 10, 2025 2:12 AM

Author:Rachel Joyce,Charlotte Bronte,Tom Burke,Amanda Hale,Full Cast

Jane Eyre

Amanda Hale and Tom Burke star in a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, adapted by Rachel Joyce.

Orphan Jane learns at an early age that self-control is the surest means of retaining self-respect in adversity. It is a lesson that serves her well in the years ahead as she endures the misery of life with her cruel, uncaring aunt, followed by the harsh regime at Lowood Institution, a charity school for poor children.

After taking the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, she meets the master of the house, the brooding, enigmatic Edward Rochester, and finds herself falling in love with him. It seems as if happiness may finally be within her grasp – but a series of strange events leads her to believe that Rochester is concealing a dark secret. When the truth is revealed, the heartbroken Jane will need all her inner strength and resilience to face up to it...

Dramatised for radio by bestselling novelist Rachel Joyce (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry), this iconic love story stars Amanda Hale as Jane and Tom Burke as Rochester. Suffused with romance, passion, mystery and danger, it is a spellbinding tale that is as real and relevant today as when it was first published in 1847.

Duration: 2 hours 30 mins approx.

Reviews

A real page-turner.

—— Good Housekeeping

Powerful and haunting, the book tackles difficult topics and makes you realise how easily you can lose your whole world

—— Woman

A powerful story about friendship and forgiveness, and fans of Dorothy Koomson will enjoy the clever twists and unexpected turns, which keep the reader enthralled and eager to discover just what happened to two little girls destined for greatness.

—— Candis

Gritty and emotional, with lots of satisfying twists and turns. A compulsively readable book about empowering women. I couldn't put it down; I think this is one of her best.

—— Julie Cohen

A thought-provoking and suspense-filled tale of friendship.

—— OK!

A great read.

—— Bella

A powerful tale of friendship.

—— Prima

Koomson brilliantly captures the fraught friendship between the two girls in this gripping tale.

—— Closer

Full of heart and sympathy.

—— Dail Mail

An absolute page-turner of a novelpowerful and oh so compelling When I Was Invisible left me with a tear in my eye and touched my heart

—— www.lovereading.co.uk

A thought-provoking, emotional drama.

—— Sunday Post

I’m a massive Dorothy Koomson fan, so I’ll be taking When I Was Invisible on holiday

—— Katie Fforde , Daily Mail, Summer Reads

Cancel the excursion to the ancient ruins and get poolside for this compelling story of love and forgiveness.

—— Sainsbury’s Magazine

A hard-hitting tale

—— Sun

Great heart

—— The Herald

Raw and emotional, this packs a punch

—— Fabulous

Koomson just gets better and better

—— Woman & Home

Tense and emotional with truly empathetic characters

—— My Weekly

A powerful story about friendship and forgiveness, fans of Dorothy Koomson’s novels will enjoy the clever twists and unexpected turns, which keep the reader enthralled

—— Candis

A powerful book … it’s always good to be thinking of a book long after you put it down

—— Woman’s Way (Ireland)

A beautiful and clever novel

—— The Culture Trip

A meditative cowboy yarn with a putative ecological message, it could not be more different from Williams’s [Stoner]; it is just as good

—— David Evans, 5 stars , Independent On Sunday

It is a sort of Dances with Buffaloes, and one of the most tense, gripping, tragic novels I have ever read

—— Giles Coren , The Times

Stoner...is a fine book but his western novel Butcher's Crossing is even better... Visceral, violent and chilling.

—— Barbara Taylor Bradford , Daily Mirror

A novel that turns upside down the expectations of the genre—and goes to war with a century of American triumphalism, a century of regeneration through violence, a century of senseless slaughter.

—— John Plotz , Guardian
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