The Taste of Sorrow

Charlotte. Emily. Anne. The Bronte sisters - the drama, the passion, and a story that lives for ever...

Once upon a time there were three sisters, bound by love and suffering, growing up in wild isolation in a lonely house on the moor. Their story will astonish you: their passionate, dangerous closeness; their struggle against the world; their determination to rise above the fates of their parents and their other lost sisters, to become more than the world ever thought they could be. You don t know their story, but you think they do. They were the Brontes.

“'Utterly seduces... no lesser Bronte authority than Juliet Barker describes this as the best novel about the family she has read and I'm with her. Intelligent escapism at its finest'”

'Quite simply the best book about the Brontes I have ever read' - Juliet Barker, author of The Brontes: A Life in Letters

Completely involving, absorbing. Full of insight and very accomplished... I loved reading it - Hilary Mantel

Seemingly effortlessly, Jude Morgan breathes such life and vigour into their stories that you are totally drawn into their world...I cannot commend it enough - Daily Mail

[Morgan holds] nerve and reason where many a Bronte biographer fails...brilliant...moving...superb...A lovely book [which] deserves a wide readership - Guardian

Jude Morgan, whose previous novels include PASSION and THE TASTE OF SORROW, was born and brought up in Peterborough on the edge of the Fens, and was a student on the University of East Anglia MA Course in Creative Writing under Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.

Charlotte. Emily. Anne. The Bronte sisters - the drama, the passion, and a story that lives for ever...Once upon a time there were three sisters, bound by love and suffering, growing up in wild isolation in a lonely house on the moor. Their story will astonish you: their passionate, dangerous closeness; their struggle against the world; their determination to rise above the fates of their parents and their other lost sisters, to become more than the world ever thought they could be. You don t know their story, but you think they do. They were the Brontes.

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