"Everyone keeps secrets. Charlotte Brontë was no exception. What intimate secrets did she harbor within her breast? What were her innermost thoughts and feelings? And perhaps most importantly: did Charlotte ever find a true love of her own?" These are the questions the author has set out to explore in her interpretation of Charlotte Brontë's life. Most of the story is based on historical research and facts with some dramatic license taken in areas where there were gaps or where the plot benefitted from conflict. Written in chapter form rather than the traditional diary entries with dates, the novel is nevertheless narrated by Charlotte in the first person point of view.
Due to a wealth of correspondence left behind after Charlotte's death, much information is available about her life as well as her thoughts and feelings and information about her relationships with friends and family. The author has chosen what she calls a "missing link" as the focus of her story - Charlotte's long relationship with Arthur Bell Nicholls, a family friend and neighbour who eventually proposed to her but was not accepted by her parents. Just as in Darcy's Passions by Regina Jeffers, this book offers a unique perspective of a beloved novelist who wrote one of the most romantic books of all time.
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