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Path to the Silent Country: The story of Charlotte Brontë's years of fame (The Brontë Sisters Saga Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Lynne Reid Banks (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
The haunting story of Charlotte Brontë’s life and career... Perfect for fans of Jane Eyre, Victorian Fiction, Literary Biographies and Literary Fiction.

With her beloved sisters dead, Charlotte Brontë must learn to survive on her own...


Haworth Parsonage, Yorkshire

With the death of her troubled brother followed quickly by those of her two soul-sisters – Emily and Anne – Charlotte Brontë finds a new purpose for her life in her writing.

Always the most ambitious of the three sisters, she is now ready to pursue her writing career and experience London society.

But with her father, Patrick Brontë consumed by the grief of losing his other children, she finds herself unable to stay away from him for long.

Will her duty to her father stop her from starting a love affair of her own? Will she ever be able to heal from the deaths of her sisters?

Or is she, too, destined to have her life cut short in tragic circumstances…?

Path to the Silent Country is a thrilling fictionalised biography of Charlotte Brontë: beautifully written literary fiction set in nineteenth century Yorkshire revealing the real tragedy of the author of the best-loved novels Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley and The Professor.

‘Lynne Reid Banks communicates her story with clarity and conviction that establish her among the noblest of factual fiction writers’ – Guardian

‘This books is a must if you are into the Brontë family. Historical fiction (I know not all love this kind of freedom with the lives of famous people), but I really love it. Especially when it is so well written and with a lot of respect to the real persons and their stories as in Lynne Reid Banks version. She makes these remarkable people come alive.’ – Brussels Brontë Blog

The Brontë Sisters Saga Series
Book One: Dark Quartet
Book Two: Path to the Silent Country

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    The Brontë Sisters Saga
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  4. Publication date
    June 26, 2018
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07F2RCXG9
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sapere Books (June 26, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 26, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.6 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 279 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Lynne Reid Banks

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Lynne Reid Banks is a best-selling author for children and adults. Her classic children's novel 'The Indian in the Cupboard' has sold nearly six million copies worldwide. She was born in London in 1929 and worked as an actress, writer and TV news reporter. Lynne has written thirty books: her first, 'The L-Shaped Room', was published in 1960. She now lives in Dorset, where she continues to write. Lynne says that writing for children comes much more easily than writing for adults. Tony Ross was born in London in 1938. He has worked as an art director at an advertising agency, a graphic designer, a cartoonist, a teacher, a film maker and as a Senior Lecturer in Art at Manchester Polytechnic.

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Customers enjoy the book. They find it a good read and a necessary follow-up to the Dark Quartet. The book inspires them to reread the author's novels.

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"Excellent book - I couldn't put it down! I read this directly after The Dark Quartet by the same author. I thoroughly enjoyed both books!" Read more

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Customers enjoy the book's subject and writing style. They find it provides new insights and enlightening understanding of the lives of the characters. Readers appreciate reading about Charlotte's life and inner struggles following the tragic deaths.

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  • Becky
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2017
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    A very good read; interesting and well-written. Start with 'The Story of the Brontes', by the same author.
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  • R. Jean Jumper
    4.0 out of 5 stars A book worth reading.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2015
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    The author challenges the readers intellect and confounds the emotions in this intensely personal look at the life of Charlotte Bronte and her family. The book is hard to put down as the reader searches for some hint of a happy ending, even knowing as we do, how the story must end. This is not a child's book, nor a light book of romantic fiction. Path to Silent Country will entice you to turn back to the Misses Bronte's novels and other works and reread them with new insights and deeper understanding.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2015
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    A great book well written. It made me want to know more about Charlotte and her family.
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  • Trudy Wright
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2016
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    Wonderful book
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  • Charlotte Brewer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect follow-up.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2016
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    This is exactly what I needed after the end of Dark Quartet.. I felt as if I was in the middle of the story at that time. This is complete now. Although I will now read Elizabeth Haskell's book. Whew....what a time and place!
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  • Meemaw
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2015
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    Well worth reading if you are a Bronte fan.
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  • Vegan Elaine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book - I couldn't put it down
    Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2017
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    Excellent book - I couldn't put it down! I read this directly after The Dark Quartet by the same author. I thoroughly enjoyed both books!
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  • peachnmario
    4.0 out of 5 stars Typos Galore
    Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2015
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    I really enjoyed reading about Charlotte's life and inner struggles following the tragic deaths of her siblings within ten months of each other. But the Kindle version is absolutely riddled with typos. It appears it was not proofread at all -- or proofread by someone without proofreading skills. Surprising for a book that wasn't self-published.
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  • SuzanneC
    5.0 out of 5 stars Charlotte Bronte
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2024
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    A wonderful book so beautifully written. This was a very sad book as it illustrated the harsh reality of life during the nineteenth century with death a frequent and unavoidable occurrence. Even so there were some moments of happiness.
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  • Tracesprite
    5.0 out of 5 stars I journeyed with Charlotte.
    Reviewed in Australia on December 16, 2015
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    I was fascinated to see the way Charlotte Bronte's friends, both male and female, supported and encouraged her. She was plagued by shyness and stricken by a sense of being unattractive but they showed her that she was valued, despite her often being brusque and confronting with some of them, e.g. Thackeray. Without the help of Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte would never have been married. Though she wasn't strong enough physically to survive pregnancy, her marriage meant so much to her. She realised that she was indeed irresistibly attractive to her husband though she was hurt when he said that he loved Charlotte Bronte but not Currer Bell. The book also created a three dimensional image of Charlotte's father, Patrick, so that he appeared both caring but also abrasive, responsible but also at times selfishly demanding. I really felt like I lived those last years of Charlotte's life along with her.
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  • Paul Steenvoorde,
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very small print
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2023
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    A good read but very small print even with reading glasses
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  • Auskiwi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sad but brilliant life
    Reviewed in Australia on January 2, 2017
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    I found this sequel to the Bronte story absorbing though sad.
    Unfortunately she was a prisoner of her times and customs.
    I recommend this book to anyone interested in literature and history of the 19th century.
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  • ddbelle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent follow on
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2017
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    Great to continue the story on from"The story of the Brontes" and read about Charlotte after the death of her sisters and brother. You really feel for her loneliness but also want to shake her and tell her to start living again too. Well written and researched novel which brings the character of Charlotte alive.
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