Path to the Silent Country [Hardcover]

Lynne Reid Banks (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (August 25, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0297773194
• ISBN-13: 978-0297773191
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,642,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lynne Reid Banks is a best-selling author for children and adults. Her classic children's novel 'The Indian in the Cupboard' has sold nearly six million copies worldwide. She was born in London in 1929 and worked as an actress, writer and TV news reporter. Lynne has written thirty books: her first, 'The L-Shaped Room', was published in 1960. She now lives in Dorset, where she continues to write. Lynne says that writing for children comes much more easily than writing for adults. Tony Ross was born in London in 1938. He has worked as an art director at an advertising agency, a graphic designer, a cartoonist, a teacher, a film maker and as a Senior Lecturer in Art at Manchester Polytechnic.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read bio of Charlotte Bronte, February 7, 2012

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Carol Chernega "Anglophile" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Path to the Silent Country (Mass Market Paperback)

This bio of Charlotte Bronte continues the story started in The Dark Quartet, also by Lynne Reed Banks. You could read Path to the Silent Country without having read the first, (especially if you're really only interested in Charlotte,) but I'd recommend reading The Dark Quartet first.

That said, this is a highly readable look at the life of Charlotte Bronte, written in fictionalized form. You hear what Charlotte said and thought - so if you're the skeptical type (how does she know Charlotte said exactly that?) then you might find this style irritating. But I found it enjoyable and easy to read - not a dry 'just the facts' type of bio.