Booklog 50/2025: Sharon Lynn Fisher: Salt and Broom – Audiobook

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Narrated by Elizabeth Bower and Tim Bruce

A slightly different take on Jane Eyre. In this version Jane Aire, age 30, teaches witchcraft at Lowood School and is sent to Thornfield Hall at the request of Edward Rochester because there is something wrong, maybe a curse. Some things play out in a familiar manner – Jane causing Rochester to be thrown from his horse etc. Some characters are familiar: Mrs Fairfax the housekeeper, Blanche Ingram the would-be second Mrs Rochester. There’s no mad woman in the attic, but the first Mrs Rochester is still in evidence, and instead of Grace Pool we have Dr Pool. There’s a supernatural mystery to solve, and Jane falls in love with Rochester (of course) while solving it. Nicely read by Elizabeth Bower with Tim Bruce reading occasional passages from Rochester’s point of view.