Cover of Thornfield Hall

Thornfield Hall

Adele, the daughter of a celebrated Parisian actress, is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mother's former lover. Lonely and ill at ease in the unfamiliar English countryside, she longs to return to the glitter of Paris . . . and to the mother who has been lost to her.

Read more

But a small ray of sunshine brightens her eternal gloom when a stranger arrives to care for her—a serious yet intensely loving young governess named Jane Eyre—even as young Adele's curiosity leads her deeper into the shadowy manor, toward the dark and terrible secret that is locked away in a high garret. . . .

Includes fascinating in-depth background material about Charlotte Bronte and the Jane Eyre legacy

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Thornfield Hall? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Thornfield Hall. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Jane Eyre's Daughter Shares historical fiction, jane eyre, bronte
  2. Becoming Jane Eyre Shares historical fiction, jane eyre, bronte
  3. Sloane Hall Shares jane eyre, historical fiction, fiction
  4. A Noteworthy Courtship Shares historical fiction, retelling

“People who read Thornfield Hall tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Bedlam
  2. Amandine
  3. The Family Fortune
  4. Wickham's Diary

“If you want more of the same (historical fiction), start with these.”

  1. We That Are Left
  2. The Last Photograph
  3. The Forest Dwellers
  4. The Land of My Dreams 1916

“If it was the jane eyre that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. All Hallows at Eyre Hall
  2. Jane Eyre's Husband - The Life of Edward Rochester
  3. Thornfield Hall
  4. My Mr. Rochester 3

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Making the Surgeon Smile
  2. Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter: a Memoir
  3. Lake Ephemeral
  4. Tamsin