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The daughter of the celebrated Parisian actress Céline Varens, Adèle is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when she is first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mother's former lover and -- though the grand estate's brooding lord refuses to acknowledge it -- quite possibly Adèle's father. Lonely and ill at ease in the cold, unfamiliar English countryside, the sad, precocious child longs to return to the glitter of Paris ... and to the arms of the mother who has been lost to her. But a small ray of sunshine brightens her eternal gloom when a stranger arrives to school and care for her: a mousy and serious yet intensely loving young governess named Jane Eyre.
As the years pass, Adèle watches with wonder as an unexpected romance blossoms between her governess and her guardian -- even as her curiosity leads her deeper into the shadowy manor, toward the dark and terrible secret that is locked away in a high garret. And on Jane and Rochester's planned wedding day, it is Adèle who is instrumental in bringing about the fiery catastrophe that shatters her "family" and sends her fleeing, frightened and alone, back to France.
But Paris is no longer the glamorous ideal she remembers. Intent on finding her mother, Adèle is soon lost in a world of sham sparkle and ruthless exploiters. Yet her will remains strong as she grows and learns, determined to follow her solitary odyssey to its inevitable conclusion, as she -- like Jane Eyre and the tormented Edward Rochester -- searches for salvation and love amid the ruins of misfortune.
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Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story
November 25, 2003, Harper Paperbacks
Paperback
in English
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Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story
November 25, 2003, Harper Paperbacks
in English
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Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story
May 2, 2003, Thorndike Press
Hardcover
in English
- 1 edition
0786253266 9780786253265
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Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story
November 26, 2002, William Morrow
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed edition
0060004541 9780060004545
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Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story
November 26, 2002, William Morrow
in English
0060004541 9780060004545
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""We lived in Paris, in a house on a long, gloomy street, the rue Vaugirard in Montparnasse, but our house was far from being somber or sad.""
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