I watched the Tara Fitzgerald tv version. I had mixed feelings about it. I liked it but it was too graphic for me. I liked the ending more in the tv movie because the book doesn’t really have much of an ending. This was written by the underrated Bronte sister Anne, the first book I’ve read of her. Her sister Charlotte called this book a mistake. I wonder if this is because Anne based some of Mr. Huntingdon on their drunken brother. But then it could have been all imagination. It’s about an artist Helen Huntingdon who has escaped her alcoholic husband with her kid. A good guy Gilbert Markham falls for her. However, she tells Gilbert the story of her nightmarish marriage. At first, her husband Mr. Huntingdon fools her. Then she sees what a rotten man he is. Yet at the end when his health deteriorates she comes to his bedside. Anne only wrote two books. What a pity. I bought the other one and plan to read it sometime.
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