Katie F. (katiez) - , reviewed on 4/12/2010 + 17 more book reviews

Since I love the Brontes, I loved this book. The characters are so real, and I think you'll find that many of them remind you of someone in your own life. Lucy's sadness is such a part of her, so much so that I found her to be one of the most sympathetic characters I've come to know in a long time. She was so real to me, in part because of the sadness and air of futility that she carries with her. This is supposedly a somewhat biographical novel by Charlotte Bronte, since she was the last one still living at the time she began this book, and I couldn't help but feel her grief, real and fictional.

Lucy has left her life in England behind and traveled to France hoping to become a teacher in a girl's school, which she does. She is timid and subservient, but beneath that facade, she is a romantic who yearns to love and be loved. At first she finds only heartache, but events propel her into a part of her past she thought was lost to her forever, and her life changes in ways she would never have imagined. She comes to terms with the love she lost, and amazingly, she does find real love.......but I won't tell you what happens.

Keep the tissues handy here, and get ready for a wonderful story of love, betrayal, ghosts and France in all its seasons, splendor and sadness.

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