*I would like to thank Transworld for sending me an advance of Glass Town. And it will prove to be one of the most beautiful, most entertaining graphic novels you’ll ever come across. It will remind you of the dangers of imagination which are almost as equal in power as its marvels. Glass Town is the perfect blend of historical fiction and fantasy and it will suck you into the reality and alternative reality the Brontë children lived in. You’ll find yourself thinking in her cartoons, imagining how the people you know would look like if she had drawn them (or maybe that was just my experience). If you’re a Brontë fan, you know that it’s not going to have a happy ending but there is so much to enjoy before the end comes! Isabel Greenberg’s work is quirky and colourful and very unique and it will stay in your head, even after you finish the book. This book is pure joy – from the actual object (this velvety hardback that makes you want to rub your face on it) to the artwork, plot and characters. It might be based on the Brontë children’s early works and lives but it will resonate with anyone who ever found themselves daydreaming about being somewhere magical and full of adventure. It is about the power of our ability to create something that doesn’t exist – a story, a whole world to live and fight and love in. Glass Town is so full of heart and imagination and the desire to escape. Through a combination of quotes from the stories originally penned by the Brontës, biographical information about them, and Greenberg’s vivid comic book illustrations, readers will find themselves enraptured by this fascinating imaginary world. Within Glass Town the siblings experienced love, friendship, war, triumph, and heartbreak.

This world and its cast of characters would come to be the Brontës’ escape from the realities of their lives.

It is in response to this loss that the four remaining Brontë children set pen to paper and created the fictional world that became known as Glass Town. The story begins in 1825, with the deaths of Maria and Elizabeth, the eldest siblings. Glass Town is an original graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that encompasses the eccentric childhoods of the four Brontë children-Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne. Genres: Graphic Novel, Historical FictionĪ graphic novel about the Brontë siblings, and the strange and marvellous imaginary worlds they invented during their childhood.

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