If you expect this book to be a re-telling of Jane Eyre from Rochester’s perspective, you might be disappointed. You may think you know the story, but do you? Because this one belongs to Edward Fairfax Rochester, not Jane Eyre. Finally, he returns to Thornfield, and an encounter with a plain little governess changes his life.Įven now, when I think of Thornfield-Hall, I choose to remember what it was then-the playground of my childhood-and not what it was to become: a place of secrets and threats, of angers and fears.
When her presence taints the only place that feels like home, he heads to Europe, where he encounters Celine Varens. One can never hurt a man who refuses to be hurt.Įventually, we see his return to England and Thornfield with his now insane wife.
Others only get the best of us when they sense a weakness. The book then follows him into adulthood and his years in Jamaica, where he meets Bertha Mason and manages his father’s business interests there. It begins with Rochester’s emotionally lonely childhood, education, and distant relationship with his brother and father.
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