Let Me In

Between wild walks, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront spent most of their lives indoors, their imaginations firing behind firmly-closed doors. Join two expert writers on a very personal journey around Britain and Ireland, enjoying privileged access to private houses that shaped and inspired the Bront sisters and their writing. Echoing Cathys ghost in Wuthering Heights, Ann and Sharon ask to be let in and invite you on an eye-opening odyssey that combines the surprising Bront history of key houses with their sometimes glorious, sometimes heartbreaking, always fascinating afterlives. Join Ann and Sharon as they explore historic buildings where the extraordinary Bront story unfolded. Discover the untold secrets of the world-famous Bront Parsonage, Bradfords literary shrine where they wrote their novels, and the nearby birthplace of their early childhoods. Learn of the ghosts and legends of the real Wuthering Heights, the legacy of Ulster and Cornwall in the sisters DNA, the restoration of the real Lowood School in Jane Eyre and follow a Bront pub crawl around the inns and taverns of Victorian England frequented by wayward brother Branwell. The book includes a foreword by author and broadcaster Rebecca Fraser and an exclusive interview with award-winning writer and director Sally Wainwright, revealing how and why she built a replica of the 1840s Haworth Parsonage on the moors for her acclaimed BBC biopic To Walk Invisible. This is a beautifully-illustrated voyage of discovery through the precious, often-overlooked places of our literary past and why they matter today.