Behind the Mountain: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
By Evie Wyld
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A short story by Evie Wyld from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.
In ‘Behind The Mountain’, an English wife struggles with the loneliness of a new life in Canada and finds herself drawn to the town’s outsider.
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.
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Behind the Mountain - Evie Wyld
Behind the Mountain
Evie Wyld
Logo MissingA short story from the collection
Reader,
I Married Him:
Stories inspired
by
Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier
Copyright
Published by The Borough Press
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Foreword © Tracy Chevalier 2016
Behind the Mountain © Evie Wyld 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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