Intrigerend gegeven, goed concept, prima weergave van tijdsgeest- en locatie... maar helaas veel te langdradig. Een flukse snoeibeurt en het zou een beklijvend werkje kunnen geweest zijn... Uitgevers, neem jullie verantwoordelijkheid! ( )

I'm fairly sure the Bronte estate abhor this book & say none of it is true.. That said it was interesting to read - I couldn't put it down. It gives pause to think about previous era's when many underhanded and heinous things were done that slipped by the law or were in fact legal. ( )

Awful, poor researched and the attempt of a wannabe crime writer to break into fiction through using the best known names in literature. ( )

OMIGOODNESS--if you're a Bronte freak you should probably read this. :) Strangely enthralling for quite didactic writing. The story's written in the alternating points-of-view of Martha, one of the Brontes' servants, and a young lawyer who finds her journals and realizes that perhaps the tragedy of all those young writers' untimely deaths was something more sinister than mere ill health. I TOTALLY NEED TO RESEARCH THE BRONTES MORE SERIOUSLY NOW.

A sensational revisionist account of the life of the Brontes, based on circumstantial evidence.

WARNING: superhuman effort is required to suspend disbelief; many assertions offensive to most right-minded people.

Read the Full Review (and it's not pretty) here: http://www.epinions.com/content_185913347716 ( )