Book description
I>is Christabel's story. It is the story of a girl who loses all
those whom she loves most dearly and is forced to leave the wild
Yorkshire moorland which is her home. A girl who is abused by a
shattering rape which leaves her feeling she can never again love or be
loved. But Christabel is destined to experience a joy that she had not
dared to believe possible. In this impressive new novel Pamela Haines
brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the Brontes' Yorkshire. With her
courage, her indomitable spirit and her depth of feeling, Christabel is
a creation worthy of the pages of a Bronte novel. Christabel Woodward is
the darling of her prosperous, mill-owning father until one day he has a
sudden and bewildering change of heart. He has read her mother's story,
written in three exercise books and usually kept well hidden, and he
knows her secret: Christabel is not his own child, but the illegitimate
daughter of Branwell Bronte. Branwell died at thirty-one, an obsessive
and tormented wreck of a man who was ruined by drinking, drug addiction
and bouts of depression. All Christabel's mother has left of her secret
love are a lock of auburn hair and Branwell's daughter, whom he has
never known. Daughter of the Northern Fields
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I>is Christabel's story. It is the story of a girl who
loses all those whom she loves most dearly and is forced to leave the
wild Yorkshire moorland which is her home. A girl who is abused by a
shattering rape which leaves her feeling she can never again love or
be loved. But Christabel is destined to experience a joy that she had
not dared to believe possible. In this impressive new novel Pamela
Haines brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the Brontes' Yorkshire.
With her courage, her indomitable spirit and her depth of feeling,
Christabel is a creation worthy of the pages of a Bronte novel.
Christabel Woodward is the darling of her prosperous, mill-owning
father until one day he has a sudden and bewildering change of heart.
He has read her mother's story, written in three exercise books and
usually kept well hidden, and he knows her secret: Christabel is not
his own child, but the illegitimate daughter of Branwell Bronte.
Branwell died at thirty-one, an obsessive and tormented wreck of a man
who was ruined by drinking, drug addiction and bouts of depression.
All Christabel's mother has left of her secret love are a lock of
auburn hair and Branwell's daughter, whom he has never known. Daughter
of the Northern Fields <
