Title: A Breath of Eyre
Author: Eve Marie Mont
Publisher: KTeen
Publication Date: March 27, 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0758269485
352 pp.
Purchased ebook via bn.com
I was totally excited about Eve Marie Mont's debut YA novel, A Breath of Eyre. Jane Eyre is one of my favorite novels, but I'm okay with taking liberties with
it. Jasper Fforde has a ton of fun riffing on it in The Eyre Affair. A
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A BREATH OF EYRE -- Eve Marie Mont
setting: twenty-first century America and nineteenth-century England
age range: young adult
Kirkus starred review: This richly satisfying tale of first and last love transcends its genre—not another breathless, fan-fiction take on a literary classic but an intertextual love letter.
Please tell us about your book.
A BREATH OF EYRE is about Emma Townsend, a girl who seeks solace in books to help her escape her loneliness at her exclusive prep school. She has few friends and even fewer romantic prospects, unless you count her crush on her English teacher. But escape soon arrives in a leather-bound copy of JANE EYRE. Emma feels a strong sense of kinship with the lonely, headstrong Jane, but when a lightning strike catapults her into Jane’s body and her nineteenth-century world, Emma is torn between two vastly different worlds, and two vastly different men. Moving between her two realities and uncovering secrets in both, Emma must decide whether her destiny lies in the pages of Jane’s story, or in the unwritten chapters of her own.
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Thank you for this lovely interview and post, Caroline!
This sounds great. I'll definitely be looking for it. Thanks for the interview. :)
YAY! I finally got my hands on an ARC and I'm reading it right now. Almost finished and loving the romance and the richness of it.
Great interview, Caroline. Looking forward to having Eve as a guest blogger on my own blog very soon!