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The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis

Evening Bookwyrms, Like most hardcore bibliophiles I grew up devouring the 'classics'. Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights (my personal favourite), Frankenstein. So, unsurprisingly, I have grown into an adult with a deep love of the uncanny, the macabre, the period piece, the surreal, the gothic, the antihero and the wild willed woman. That's why when I saw the blurb for The Vanished Bride I knew I needed to read it and as quickly as possible. Here is the description that caught my attention: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yorkshire, 1845 A young woman has gone missing from her home, Chester Grange, leaving no trace, save a large pool of blood in her bedroom and a slew of dark rumours about her marriage. A few miles away across the moors, the daughters of a humble parson, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë are horrified, yet intrigued. Desperate to find out more, the sisters visit Chester Grange, where they notice several u