However, what changes there are seem to simplify the book in a way that detracts from its fascinating ambiguities and shadows and also seem to suggest a pat solution to problems that simply isn’t there. There are large sections of it that are simply cut and pasted from Jane Eyre, with only very minor changes: necessitated, apparently, by the heroine living out the Jane Eyre novel in her dreams in a very literal fashion. I had a number of problems with the book. I was in real danger of projecting onto this book, and being disappointed in it for not conforming to what I wanted it to be. That is how tenuous theses and reports for Fox News are born. Your task, however, is to let them tell you what they were meant to, not project what you want out of them onto the text. All texts, all sources, tell you something. He just sort of laughed and said that I could certainly do that, but also I was wrong.

There I was, buried in a pile of out-of-date news coverage and mostly false political speeches, going absolutely insane trying to build a thesis out of these disparate threads and swearing that they were ill matched and I’d have to rip it all out and start over. In the midst of my thesis writing, I got some very good advice from a professor. Now, moving between her two realities and uncovering secrets in both, Emma must decide whether her destiny lies in the pages of Jane's story, or in the unwritten chapters of her own. As governess at Thornfield, Emma has a sense of belonging she's never known-and an attraction to the brooding Mr. Then fate takes things a leap further when a lightning storm catapults Emma right into Jane's body and her nineteenth-century world. Reading of Jane's isolation sparks a deep sense of kinship. But escape soon arrives in an old leather-bound copy of Jane Eyre. And her only romantic prospect-apart from a crush on her English teacher-is Gray Newman, a long-time friend who just adds to Emma's confusion. Perhaps it's because she feels like an outsider at her exclusive prep school, or because her stepmother doesn't come close to filling the void left by her mother's death. In this stunning, imaginative novel, Eve Marie Mont transports her modern-day heroine into the life of Jane Eyre to create a mesmerizing story of love, longing, and finding your place in the world.Įmma Townsend has always believed in stories-the ones she reads voraciously, and the ones she creates.

A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont