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Reader, I Married Him

Elizabeth Kuti

Olivia Hallinan

Heather Larmour

Reader, I Married Him: Reader, I Mended Him

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Reader, I Mended Him

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Olivia Hallinan reads Elizabeth Kuti's twist on the ending of Jane Eyre.

Jane meets a young girl whose scientific endeavours might just be able to help her beloved Rochester. Olivia Hallinan reads Elizabeth Kuti's twist on the ending of Jane Eyre.

To celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth three writers provide their own take on the famous ending to Jane Eyre, 'Reader, I Married Him'.

Isy Suttie has Jane do battle with the ghost of Bertha, Philip Hensher sends her into the capitalist clamour of nineteenth-century Manchester and Elizabeth Kuti introduces an extra gothic twist with the appearance of another famous Victorian novelist.


Writer ..... Elizabeth Kuti
Reader ..... Olivia Hallinan
Producer ..... Heather Larmour.

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Series of stories celebrating the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth.

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