This post is part of this year’s April Challenge to write a post a day. I’ve chosen to write about my greatest literary passion: Jane Eyre. I’m going to discuss Jane Eyre’s Rebirth and Sequel in the Eyre Hall Trilogy.
The Eyre Hall Trilogy is a three-part sequel to Jane Eyre.
My aim was to pay tribute to Charlotte Bronte and so many other Victorian authors, whom I consider my literary Masters.
The Eyre Hall Trilogy owes its existence to the following 19th century literary geniuses in no particular order:
The Brontes, Dickens, Wilkie Collins, R.L. Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Elizabeth and Robert Browning, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, George Elliott, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lord Tennyson, Hardy, Wilde, de Quincy, and Jane Austen.
I have aimed to write an enjoyable Gothic Romance, which makes suspenseful and exciting reading for contemporary audiences.
Readers will encounter many of the original characters in Jane Eyre once again, but this series will also bring to life many new and intriguing ones, spinning a unique and absorbing narrative.
The Eyre Hall Trilogy is now complete:
Book 1, All Hallows at Eyre Hall, takes place twenty-two years after Jane’s marriage to Edward Rochester. Jane is coping with the imminent death of her bedridden husband, and Richard Mason has returned from Jamaica to disclose more secrets and ruin her happiness once again, instigating a sequence of events which will expose Rochester’s disloyalty to Jane, his murderous plots, and innumerable other sins. Mason’s revelations, and the arrival Bertha’s daughter, Miss Annette Mason, will turn Jane’s world turned upside down.
Book 2, Twelfth Night at Eyre Hall, moves the action on after Edward Rochester’s death. Jane Eyre, who has been blackmailed into marrying a man she despises, will have to cope with the return of the man she loved and lost. The secrets she has tried so hard to conceal must be disclosed, giving rise to unexpected events and more shocking revelations. This time, the action will move from the Yorkshire countryside, to Victorian London, and across the Atlantic Ocean to Colonial Jamaica.
Book 3, Midsummer at Eyre Hall, which is available for pre-order and will be launched on 21st June, Midsummer’s Day, is the final part of the trilogy.
The first part of Midsummer at Eyre Hall is very dramatic and action-packed. Jane will find herself in completely unexpected and dreadful circumstances, which neither she, nor the reader would ever imagine, so I can’t say much more!
The second part begins to show some improvement in her situation and contains more surprises, including two new characters, who will drastically change Jane’s life forever.
In this final installment, Jane will undertake perilous physical and emotional journeys across England, from Yorkshire, to magical Cornwall, and Victorian London. She will discover who her friends and enemies are, and she will have to make challenging and drastic decisions, which will affect everyone on the Rochester Estate.
I hope the reader will find the end is satisfactory, although the final outcome is happier for some characters than for others…
Check out the Eyre Hall Trilogy on Amazon US and Amazon UK
For those living in Spain you can also purchase paperback versions at http://www.libroseningles.com/
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For those of you who have read books 1 and 2, would like an ARC of Midsummer at Eyre Hall, it will be available at the beginning of June.
Please let me know if you’d like to be the first to read it 🙂
Rereading Jane Eyre 
I’ll try and bring the full trilogy to my blog when the third book is out. Best of luck and congratulations!
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Thank you, Olga. I feel relieved it’s almost there. It’s a load off my chest, but I also feel sad that this particular story is over 😦
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