Author:Charlotte Bronte
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette.
There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.
'A rip-roaring combination of high romance and breathless excitement'
—— MAIL ON SUNDAY'A rewarding experience...This is murder at its most foul, crime at the deep end'
—— Spectator'His novel is something substantial and distinctive...Edric has a clear, almost rain-washed style, eminently suitable for his Hull setting...Cradle Song is a strong and serious novel, soberly entertaining and well worth your while'
—— Literary Review'Cradle Song is a superbly paced book... This is classic crime noir... Edric can also produce beautiful prose and arresting images as well as incisive social satire... Magnificently achieved'
—— Giles Foden'Deeply intelligent...Vertiginously devious...Twists like a fist around the throat of the reader'
—— The Times'A veritable Stanley Kubrik of the world of fiction...Edric makes it impossible for the crime novel to be considered the country cousin of serious literature any longer'
—— The TimesA witty novel about love
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