Sanctuary

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<p>Haworth, West Yorkshire, 1848.</p><p>Branwell Brontë - unexhibited artist, unacknowledged writer, sacked railwayman, disgraced tutor and spurned lover - finds himself unhappily back in Haworth Parsonage, to face the disappointment of his father and his three sisters, the scale of whose own pseudonymous successes is only just becoming apparent.</p><p>With his health failing rapidly, his aspirations abandoned and his once loyal circle of friends shrinking fast, Branwell resorts to a world of secrets, conspiracies and endlessly imagined betrayals. But his spiral of self-destruction only accelerates the sense of his destiny to be a bystander looking across at greatness, and the madness which that realisation will bring</p>

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Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include<i>Winter Garden</i>(James Tait Black Prize winner 1986),<i>A New Ice Age</i>(runner-up for the<i>Guardian</i>Fiction Prize 1986),<i>The Book of the Heathen</i>(winner of the WH Smith LIterary Award 2000),<i>Peacetime</i>(longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002),<i>Gathering the Water</i>(longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006) and<i>In Zodiac Light (</i>shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Prize 2010). His most recent novel is<i>The Monsters Lament</i>. He lives in Yorkshire.

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