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Author Note

I came to Jane Eyre late. Unlike most people, I’d never read the book at school, where my tastes ran more to Orwell, Huxley and Shakespeare.

Novels become classics for a reason—but your age at the time of reading them will inevitably alter their impact. An impressionable young girl visiting a famous love-story for the first time is bound to view the book differently from a mature woman who has experienced love herself.

Yet such is the power of Brontë’s story that I was as swept away by it as any sixteen year old and, like Jane—I fell in love with Edward Rochester—the man with the brilliant black eyes and brooding presence.

Translating the story to the present day posed problems. It had to reflect the times while retaining it’s particular theme of forbidden love. A modern Jane would (I think) sleep with Edward. And a modern Edward would be unlikely to keep his wife imprisoned in an upstairs room!

But the essential elements remain: for me, their story was as much about a meeting of minds as a powerful passion which could not be denied. And all about the redemptive power of love, it’s ability to adapt—and to heal.

I hope you enjoy THE FORBIDDEN INNOCENT—and I’d love to hear your views on the story.

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