Child of Fire — Maureen Peters

Was Charlotte Bronte the dutiful, loving daughter who rose with courage above the blows life dealt her, or was she a coldhearted, manipulative woman? This carefully researched novel traces the life of the ambitious, desperately shy girl whose emotions are poured out upon her friends. Here is the woman burning with suppressed sexuality who bursts upon the literary world and shocks Victorian England, but submits to a marriage she may have regretted.