When Charlotte Bront毛 died in 1855, she left behind twenty pages of a novel that signaled her most compelling work since Jane Eyre. One hundred fifty years later, Clare Boylan has finished Bront毛鈥檚 novel, sparking a sensational literary event. With pitch-perfect tone that is utterly true to Bront毛鈥檚 voice, Boylan delivers a brilliant tale about a mysterious young girl, Matilda, who is delivered to a girls鈥?school in provincial England. When everything about the girl鈥檚 wealthy background turns out to be a fiction, it falls to a local gentleman, Mr. Ellin, and a childless widow, Isabel Chalfont, to begin a quest for her past and her identity that takes them from the drawing rooms of country society to London鈥檚 seamiest alleys. With all the intelligence and pathos of the novel鈥檚 originator, Boylan develops Bront毛鈥檚 sketch of a girl without a past into a stunning portrait of Victorian society with a shameful secret at its heart.