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New dimension to the story, yet to be determined whether this hinders or helps it, in discovering elsewhere that Caroline and Shirley are stand-ins, after a fashion, for sisters Anne and Emily.

From the measured, wry and distanced narrative to the furtive characters that wouldn't be out of place in an Agatha Christie mystery, this seems to toy with everything about Jane Eyre that could conceivably establish itself as a formula. Jarring and still compelling in its own way.