Nan finds her role as governess means managing parental expectations carefully. Maria is alerted to her husband’s subterfuge as the doctor pays an unexpected visit.

Chapter 4

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.