Becoming Jane Eyre, Sheila Kohler
Becoming Jane Eyre, Sheila Kohler
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Becoming Jane Eyre
A Novel

Author: Sheila Kohler

Narrator: Jen Taylor

Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/22/2025

Synopsis

A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre. The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by alcohol and opiates. And three strong, intelligent young women, reduced to poverty and spinsterhood, with nothing to save them from their fate. Nothing, that is, except their remarkable literary talent. So unfolds the story of the Brontë sisters. At its center are Charlotte and the writing of Jane Eyre. Delicately unraveling the connections between one of fiction's most indelible heroines and the remarkable woman who created her, Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre will appeal to fans of historical fiction and, of course, the millions of readers who adore Jane Eyre.

About Sheila Kohler

Sheila Kohler is the author of five novels, including Cracks, Crossways, The Perfect Place, and Children of Pithiviers. Cracks was chosen by New York Newsday and Library Journal as one of the best books of 1999. Kohler has also published three collections of short stories. A native of South Africa, she makes her home in New York City, and teaches at Bennington College in Vermont.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on March 16, 2012

I read this book in an airport, expecting that it would be standard, light and frothy airport fare. Strangely, it took me right to early Victorian London, so that I looked up from the book and had to remember I wasn't there. This book is Charlotte Bronte in glimpses, in word snapshots. It is such a......more

Goodreads review by Ron on November 27, 2013

I didn't read Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" until I was an adult, but I still reacted with all the whiny complaints of a 14-year-old boy. Unfortunately, I was teaching it to 14-year-old boys at the time, so I had to feign a certain amount of enthusiasm. But a funny thing happened on the way to educ......more

Goodreads review by Terri on November 25, 2011

I picked this up in audiobook format on a whim. Ordinarily, I don’t enjoy fictionalized accounts of the lives of famous people, and this slight concoction proved to be no exception. The bulk of the narrative consisted of imagined thoughts and conversations that for the most part fell heavily on the......more

Goodreads review by Nathaniel on April 04, 2021

I loved this so much more than I thought I would. We got a fictional glimpse into the Bronte sister's lives. The writing of their books, the untimely deaths of two of them, the struggle against poverty, and the social and familial issues that they faced. It was a gripping tale of heartache and deter......more

Goodreads review by Leslie on February 10, 2010

I enjoy novels about the Bronte's life, and this one has a great cover and lots of beautiful and intense emotion throughout. I thought from the title this book would be mainly about Charlotte Bronte, but all except the brother are narrators here, why she didn't include him I don't know. Too drunk an......more

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