The Madwoman Upstairs

I'm Still Standing: A feel good, laugh out loud romantic comedy

Author: Catherine Lowell

Samantha Whipple is used to stirring up speculation wherever she goes. Since her eccentric father’s untimely death, she is the presumed heir to a long-rumored trove of diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts passed down from the Brontë family – a hidden fortune never revealed to anyone outside of the family, but endlessly speculated about by Brontë scholars and….Read More

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