Author:David Malouf
Perfectly preserving the tone and mood of the novel whilst condensing it into two acts, David Malouf, with the gift for language already evident from his novels and poetry, presents afresh the timeless story of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, one of the most enduring literary classics of all time. The love between Jane and Mr Rochester, and the mystery of the woman behind the locked door, are here set to music in the opera composed by Michael Berkeley.
Weird, whimsical and, at times, uproarious... Brown takes us on a meandering pleasure cruise downriver. It is worth the journey
—— The Sunday TimesIt combines a playfully baroque prose style with pinpoint observation and almost excruciating levels of self-examination, if not loathing. It's a fascinating experience
—— AL Kennedy , Guardian, Books of the YearA fantastic voyage into Derren Brown's intensely sharp brain... A deeply funny and eccentric triumph
—— HeatCloser to the work of someone like Malcolm Gladwell than to the... reminiscences of Brown's memoirs-writing contemporaries
—— WordA lovely kind of magic trick in book form
—— Boing Boing