Nan meets the children she is to care for. Maria mourns the loss of Helen Burns and outlines her plans to lay her beloved pupil to rest with dignity.

Chapter 3

For lovers of Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’...disease plunders a grim northern orphanage and Miss Temple is stuck in this story - until she’s not. Reader: she marries the excellent Reverend Nasmyth and with help from companion Nan Wilson, gets to write the pages of her own tale, an exorcism of the past and testimony of murder to come.