Like the heroine of Jane Eyre, the orphaned Jane Steele suffers at the hands of a hostile family and a cruelly indifferent world. Like Jane Eyre, Jane Steele rebels, and her tormentors call her wicked and unnatural. But Jane Steele is afraid they are right. When she escapes to London, she leaves behind a trail of the corpses of her tormentors. There she hides from the law in London's most notorious neighborhoods, and supports herself by writing and selling macabre "last confessions" of condemned criminals to an avid public. By chance she learns that her aunt has died and a distant relation has inherited her ancestral home, Highgate House. Mr. Charles Thornfield, late of the Anglo-Sikh Wars in the Punjab, seeks a governess for his young ward, Sahjara Kaur. Anxious to prove that she is the rightful heir to Highgate, Jane applies for the job. But she never anticipated that she would develop an affection for her young charge, or find acceptance in the unconventional household --- or fall desperately in love with the enigmatic man she proposes to supplant.
A wonderfully macabre and entertaining tribute to Charlotte Bronte's classic proto-feminist novel,
Faye's book was optioned for a film adaptation by 1492 Pictures just days before its publication.
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