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In Catherine Lowell's smart and original debut novel, the only staying descendant of the Brontë family embarks over a modern-day literary scavenger hunt to get the family's long-rumored key estate, using only the signs her eccentric daddy left out and the Brontës' own books. Samantha Whipple is used to stirring up speculation wherever she runs. Since her father's untimely fatality, she is the presumed heir to a long-rumored trove of diaries, paintings, words, and early novel drafts passed down from the Brontë family - a hidden fortune never disclosed to anyone beyond your family but endlessly speculated on by Brontë scholars and fans. Samantha, however, hasn't seen this alleged estate, and for all she knows, it's equally as imaginary as Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. Yet everything changes when Samantha enrolls at Oxford University or college and long-lost items from the past commence rematerializing in her life. Her father's distinctive copy of Jane Eyre, that ought to have perished in the open fire that stated his life, mysteriously shows up on Samantha's bed. Annotated in her father's handwriting, the reserve is the first of many clues in an elaborate scavenger hunt derived from the world's best literature. By using a handsome but inscrutable professor, Samantha must plunge into a huge literary unknown and an untold family legacy - the one that can be fixed only by decoding the signs concealed within the Brontës' own writing. For listeners who devoured The Strange Sisters and Special Subject areas in Calamity Physics, The Madwoman Upstairs is a suspenseful, exhilarating debut by a thrilling new talent who offers a moving exploration of what this means when the greatest reality is, in simple fact, fiction.
