Sanctuary

Robert Edric

Sanctuary
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 August 2015
Pages
304
ISBN
9781784160333

Sanctuary

Robert Edric

A lacerating and moving fictionalised portrait of self-destruction - unlike anything hitherto written about the Brontes

Haworth, West Yorkshire, 1848.

Branwell Bronte - unexhibited artist, unacknowledged writer, sacked railwayman, disgraced tutor and spurned lover - finds himself unhappily back in Haworth Parsonage, to face the disappointment of his father and his three sisters, the scale of whose own pseudonymous successes is only just becoming apparent.

With his health failing rapidly, his aspirations abandoned and his once loyal circle of friends shrinking fast, Branwell resorts to a world of secrets, conspiracies and endlessly imagined betrayals. But his spiral of self-destruction only accelerates the sense of his destiny to be a bystander looking across at greatness, and the madness which that realisation will bring.

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