"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the so
The madwoman upstairs: a novel
β Scribed by Catherine Lowell
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Edition
- First Touchstone hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
In this smart and enthralling debut in the spirit of The Weird Sisters and Special Topics in Calamity Physics , the only remaining descendant of the Bronte family embarks on a modern-day literary scavenger hunt to find the family's long-rumored secret estate, using clues her eccentric father left behind.
Samantha Whipple is used to stirring up speculation wherever she goes. As the last remaining descendant of the Bronte family, she's rumored to have inherited a vital, mysterious portion of the Brontes literary estate--diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts--a hidden fortune that's never been shown outside of the family.
But Samantha has never seen this rumored estate, and as far as she knows, it doesn't exist. She has no interest in acknowledging what the rest of the world has come to find so irresistible--namely, the sudden and untimely death of her eccentric father, or the cryptic estate he has bequeathed to...
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