The Haunting of a Brontë, Amelia Blackwell‘s latest Austen-inspired novel, has been reviewed by the Historical Novel Society.

The review, which you can read in full here, praises the novel’s exploration of time travel mechanics and its rich backstory.

Pemberley, 1799.

Like many a Regency heroine, Georgiana Darcy is pining for the man she loves. The difference is, her lover is in 1995, and she has been left behind in 1799 waiting for the mysterious device that transports her through time to re-activate.

Thorp Green Hall, 1845.

But when her Motorola pager finally comes back to life, Georgiana finds herself only forty-six years in the future, at the gloomy Thorp Green Hall, where Branwell and Anne Brontë are the tutor and governess.

Georgiana assumes she will soon come across a murder to investigate, but even before she discovers the cook’s father dead on a chopping block, she finds herself entangled in a web of passion, deception, and danger centred on the eccentric Branwell Brontë.

Branwell is engaged in a perilous affair with the mistress of the house and experiences a series of sinister omens and terrifying encounters. As Georgiana uncovers the mysteries of Thorp Green Hall, and learns more about the origins of her time-travelling capabilities, she must find the killer and save the Brontë siblings from an evil plot, preventing a most terrible loss to readers everywhere . . .

The Haunting of a Brontë, is available now in hardback. Grab your copy here or, better, via Bookshop.org.

The first in the series, A Crime Through Time, is also available in paperback. Grab your copy UK copy here or your US copy here or, better, via the US website for Bookshop.org.

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