Our heroine, Jane, nobody from Phoenix, Arizona, raised we learn in foster homes, is not educated enough or polished enough to be a governess. She is a dog walker in Thornfield Estates, a new, perfectly groomed section of Mountain Brook. Now Rachel Hawkins, best-selling author of eleven books for children, has produced her first “adult” novel, a revisioning of “Jane Eyre” set in Mountain Brook.Īnd it really is an adult novel. Not so much because of the sexuality and some scenes of violence, although there is lots of that, but because of the darkness, the cynicism, the depiction of life in Mountain Brook as shallow, pretentious, hypocritical, ostentatious, and Hobbesian in its genteel, country club, tooth-and-claw, struggle of all against all. Lewis.Ĭassandra King Conroy, who had written several successful domestic novels for women of a certain age, often going through a divorce and helped out by a small group of faithful friends, published “Moonrise,” an inspired rewrite of Daphne DuMaurier’s “Rebecca,” setting it in Highlands, North Carolina. Lewis,” the story of the American poet who fell in love with and married the English writer C. Patti Callahan Henry, famous for women’s novels often set at the beach, took a chance and produced the very fine “Becoming Mrs. In the last few years three Alabama novelists have struck out in new directions with really astonishing results. Classic British Novel Re-envisioned in Mountain Brook Is Full of Surprises
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