Jane Steele
by Lyndsay Faye
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date Mar 22 2016 | Archive Date Apr 08 2020
PENGUIN GROUP Putnam | G.P. Putnam's Sons
Description
A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer,
from the author whose work The
New York Times described as
“riveting” and The Wall Street
Journal called “thrilling.”
“Reader,
I murdered him.”
A
sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt
and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life
until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her.
After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre “last confessions” of
the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her
aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield,
who seeks a governess.
Burning
to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position
incognito, and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new
residents—the fascinating but caustic Mr. Thornfield, an army doctor returned
from the Sikh Wars, and the gracious Sikh butler Mr. Sardar Singh, whose
history with Mr. Thornfield appears far deeper and darker than they pretend. As
Jane catches ominous glimpses of the pair’s violent history and falls in love
with the gruffly tragic Mr. Thornfield, she faces a terrible dilemma: can she
possess him—body, soul, and secrets—without revealing her own murderous past?
A
satirical romance about identity, guilt, goodness, and the nature of lies, by a
writer who Matthew Pearl calls “superstar-caliber” and whose previous works
Gillian Flynn declared “spectacular,” Jane Steele is a brilliant and deeply absorbing
book inspired by Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre.
Advance Praise
“Let’s be
honest here. When I was sent an advanced readers’ copy of JANE STEELE,
which was billed as an historical crime novel with a Jane-Eyre-style heroine
who becomes a serial killer, I thought someone was pulling my leg. I
decided to read ten pages, just to annoy myself as I’m often inclined to
do. Also, to show what a good sport I am. I was hooked by page five
and read my way through at a merry clip. I loved this book! The
language rings true, the period details are correct. Jane Steele is a joy,
both plucky and rueful in her assessment of her dark deeds. The plotting
is solid and the pacing sublime. If this were a series, this would be the
perfect introduction. As a stand-alone, I give it an A+”
—Sue
Grafton, #1 New
York Times bestselling author
"This
is a wonderfully wicked book. The deadly first chapter actually made me gasp.
Jane Steele is a character you will not soon forget. Great evil fun!"
--R.L.
Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street
Lyndsay
Faye pulls off the most elusive feat of historical fiction: to give us a book
that reads as though it was unearthed from a perfectly preserved antique chest.
Sneakily charming and wildly well written, like Faye's other novels JANE STEELE
demands attention.
--Matthew
Pearl, New
York Times bestselling author
of The
Dante Club and The
Last Bookaneer
“JANE
STEELE is lethal good fun! In Jane, Lyndsay Faye has created a heroine
unwilling to suffer tyrants or fools. The result is a darkly-humorous,
elegantly-crafted story of an "accidental" vigilante. A delicious
read.”
--Suzanne
Rindell, author of The Other Typist
"Enchanting.
JANE STEELE is
beautifully rendered and utterly captivating, from the first cry of
"reader, I murdered him" to its final pages. Lyndsay Faye is a
masterful storyteller, and this is her finest tale yet."
--Maria
Konnikova, New
York Times bestselling author
of Mastermind:
How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
"From
the gasp-inducing moment Jane Steele utters the words "reader, I murdered
him", you know you are in for a rollicking romp of an adventure that
recasts the Jane Eyre story in an entirely new light. But mixed in with the verve
and vivacity is a story of real heart, exemplary, near-forgotten history, and
an utterly unforgettable heroine. Brava to Lyndsay Faye for what's already one
of my favorite thrillers of the year."
--Sarah
Weinman, editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of
the 1940s & 50s
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780399169496 |
| PRICE | $27.00 (USD) |
Available on NetGalley
Readers who liked this book also liked:
Michelle Collins Anderson
General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
