ARGONAUT BOOKS

A blazingly creative re-imagining of the short life of one of England's greatest writers, picked as one of the best historical fiction novels by The Times. Reviews "Karen Powell's debut novel, The River Within, was a tale of class, grief and love set in 1950s Yorkshire. Her second travels further back into that county's past and revisits the lives of its most famous writing family, the Brontës. The story of moorland isolation, early deaths and burgeoning creativity is a familiar one, but Powell, with Emily as her first-person narrator, gives it new energy, capturing the vuln...Read More