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βReader, I murdered him.β A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre βlast confessionsβ of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess. Burning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito, and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residentsβthe fascinating but caustic Mr. Thornfield, an army doctor returned from the Sikh Wars, and the gracious Sikh butler Mr. Sardar Singh, whose history with Mr. Thornfield appears far deeper and darker than they pretend. As Jane catches ominous glimpses of the pairβs violent history and falls in love with the gruffly tragic Mr. Thornfield, she faces a terrible dilemma: can she possess himβbody, soul, and secretsβwithout revealing her own murderous past? A satirical romance about identity, guilt, goodness, and the nature of lies, by a writer who Matthew Pearl calls βsuperstar-caliberβ and whose previous works Gillian Flynn declared βspectacular,β Jane Steele is a brilliant and deeply absorbing book inspired by Charlotte BrontΓ«βs classic Jane Eyre.
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