CharlotteCharlotte Bront, who dazzled the world with some of literatures most vital and richly drawn characters, spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love. She eventually found it with Arthur Bell, a reserved yet passionate Irishman. After marrying, the pair honeymooned in Ireland a glimmer of happiness in a life shadowed by tragedy. That moment of joy was destined to be short lived however, as Bront died just nine months into their marriage.

Thereafter

This is a pacy novel of menace

From the first trade edition

is a valuable record of a unique Irishman and citizen of the world at the close of his days

literary and cultural criticism

establish him as one of Ireland’s great twentieth- century prose writers and thinkers

and contains invaluable appendices detailing the Acts and parliamentary papers

runs the local bookshop

and on the individual families who made these bungalows their homes

an opera about Jonathan Swift

as are the lives of the forgotten scholar John Freeman Knott

Birgit visits Africa in a quest to decide her future in working among the deprived