Shirley

Perhaps the most plot-driven novel by Charlotte Brontë.
A novel that subtly combines classical “gothic” motives—with motives that, so to speak, are classically “detective” in nature.

However, under Brontë’s genius pen, the engaging plot becomes only a brilliant frame for a very delicate, psychologically perfectly calibrated story of complicated relationships between a man and two women—relationships that go far beyond the traditional “love triangle”…