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    Since First I Saw Your Face: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
    Since First I Saw Your Face: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
    Since First I Saw Your Face: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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    Since First I Saw Your Face: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

    By Emma Donoghue

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    A short story by Emma Donoghue from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.

    ‘Since First I Saw Your Face’ reimagines a relationship between two notable Victorian women.

    Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 21, 2016
    ISBN9780008173388
    Since First I Saw Your Face: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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    Emma Donoghue

    Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Room sold more than two million copies and won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean). It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The Wonder was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Donoghue cowrote the 2022 screen adaptation for Netflix. The Pull of the Stars was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Donoghue’s fiction ranges from the contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects, Akin) to the historical (Haven, Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Astray, Frog Music) and includes two books for young readers, The Lotterys Plus One and The Lotterys More or Less.

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      Since First I Saw Your Face - Emma Donoghue

      Since First I Saw Your Face

      Emma Donoghue

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      A short story from the collection

      Reader,

      I Married Him:

      Stories inspired

      by

      Jane Eyre

      edited by

      Tracy Chevalier

      Copyright

      Published by The Borough Press

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

      www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

      Foreword © Tracy Chevalier 2016

      Since First I Saw Your Face © Emma Donoghue 2016

      The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

      Cover design by Heike Schüssler © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Jacket photograph © Dan Saelinger/Trunk Archive

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical events and figures, are the works of the authors’ imaginations.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780008150594

      Ebook Edition © April 2016 ISBN: 9780008173388

      Version: 2016-03-09

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Foreword by Tracy Chevalier

      Since First I Saw Your Face – Emma Donoghue

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