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    Dorset Gap: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
    Dorset Gap: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
    Dorset Gap: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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    Dorset Gap: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

    By Tracy Chevalier

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    A short story by Tracy Chevalier from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.

    In ‘Dorset Gap’, two students walk in the countryside after a night of partying and miscommunicate over Jane Eyre.

    Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 21, 2016
    ISBN9780008173456
    Dorset Gap: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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    Tracy Chevalier

    Tracy Chevalier is the author of the New York Times bestsellers At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl with a Pearl Earring, among others. She lives in London.  

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      Dorset Gap - Tracy Chevalier

      Dorset Gap

      Tracy Chevalier

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      A short story from the collection

      Reader,

      I Married Him:

      Stories inspired

      by

      Jane Eyre

      edited by

      Tracy Chevalier

      Copyright

      Published by The Borough Press

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

      www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

      Foreword © Tracy Chevalier 2016

      Dorset Gap © Tracy Chevalier 2016

      The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

      Cover design by Heike Schüssler © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Jacket photograph © Dan Saelinger/Trunk Archive

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical events and figures, are the works of the authors’ imaginations.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or

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