The Madwoman Upstairs, Catherine Lowell
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The Madwoman Upstairs

Narrator: Katie Koster

Unabridged: 11 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2016


Synopsis

In Catherine Lowells smart and original debut novel, the only remaining descendant of the Bront family embarks on a modern-day literary scavenger hunt to find the familys long-rumored secret estate, using only the clues her eccentric father left behind and the Bronts own novels. Samantha Whipple is used to stirring up speculation wherever she goes. Since her fathers untimely death, she is the presumed heir to a long-rumored trove of diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts passed down from the Bront familya hidden fortune never revealed to anyone outside the family but endlessly speculated on by Bront scholars and fanatics. Samantha, however, has never seen this alleged estate, and for all she knows, its just as fictional as Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. Yet everything changes when Samantha enrolls at Oxford University and long-lost objects from the past begin rematerializing in her life. Her fathers distinctive copy of Jane Eyre, which should have perished in the fire that claimed his life, mysteriously appears on Samanthas bed. Annotated in her fathers handwriting, the book is the first of many clues in an elaborate scavenger hunt derived from the worlds greatest literature. With the help of a handsome but inscrutable professor, Samantha must plunge into a vast literary mystery and an untold family legacy, one that can only be solved by decoding the clues hidden within the Bronts own writing. For readers who devoured The Weird Sisters and Special Topics in Calamity Physics, The Madwoman Upstairs is a suspenseful, exhilarating debut by an exciting new talent who offers a moving exploration of what it means when the greatest truth is, in fact, fiction.

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