Sinclair’s twist, apart from the erotic one, is radical - with the mad woman in the attic, Rochester’s first wife, playing an important role in the proceedings. Let’s face it, Rochester did a terrible thing by keeping a mentally ill woman locked up.” Aristocrats behaved terribly and lived completely secret debauched lives. Brontë was saying shocking things for her time. I used the middle of the book because that is the love story. I was reinventing a classic through an erotic retelling. Of the die-hard fan who would be upset with the book, Sinclair says: “I have mainly used Bronte’s prose. I have added the naughty bits in a serious way.” I have stayed true to the text but given it a twist. Were they very big shoes to step into? “I am an enormous fan of the original and revisiting the book was beautiful. Jane Eyre Laid Bare Sinclair shares writing credits with Brontë. Jane Eyre would’ve been struck by the sexuality between the two.” Jane Eyre and being struck by the smouldering sexuality between Jane and Rochester. “It was meant to be a fun project,” the UK-based Sinclair says over the phone. Jaen Slayre, you have Jane exploring her sexuality in Eve Sinclair’s unashamedly raunchy In the millennium after Jane battled vampires in Sherri Browning Erwin’s Jane Eyre, featuring a masterful Byronic hero and an innocent ingénue, has been called many things including a seminal feminist text and at the other end of the spectrum, providing the template for every romance ever written.
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