Published by East Coast Books, 2005 Price £7.99
Man Booker Prize for Fiction entry 2005.
Set in Victorian Bradford, the tale of Branwell Bronte's authorship of the novel that went on to be published as ' Wuthering Heights ', told by Branwell's barber.
The novel is an exhilarating thriller.
East Coast Books has 100 copies of a first trial print run of this novel to give away free to schools, colleges or people in full time education.
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' Sensational and compelling – a literary thriller that will explode the Bronte myth… '
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
'Although it provides the more discerning reader with a personal slant on a famous literary issue, the pleasure comes from the entertaining tale Firth weaves around it.
At one point, I admit, the book had me wavering on the question of authorship, but by the time I had got half way through, the issue no longer seemed to be of importance. The novel has pace, is written in eloquent prose, gradually immersing the reader into the dirty underbelly of industrial Bradford in a tale of plot and intrigue that several times has the hapless barber close to death. Firth has created an engaging story that grips to the last. '
Emma Patchett,
Evening Press, York.
