To Hold: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

By Joanna Briscoe

A short story by Joanna Briscoe from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.

In ‘To Hold’, a woman looks back on her life, which has been defined by three marriages.

Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Apr 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9780008173364

Joanna Briscoe

Joanna Briscoe is the author of five previous novels, including the bestselling Sleep With Me, which was adapted for ITV by Andrew Davies. She has been a columnist for the Independent and the Guardian, is a literary critic for the Guardian, and broadcasts regularly on Radio 4. Joanna lives in London. joannabriscoe.com @JoannaBriscoe

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To Hold

Joanna Briscoe

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A short story from the collection

Reader,

I Married Him:

Stories inspired

by

Jane Eyre

edited by

Tracy Chevalier

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Published by The Borough Press

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

Foreword © Tracy Chevalier 2016

To Hold © Joanna Briscoe 2016

The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

Cover design by Heike Schüssler © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

Jacket photograph © Dan Saelinger/Trunk Archive

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical events and figures, are the works of the authors’ imaginations.

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