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A short story by Sarah Hall from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.
In ‘Luxury Hour’, a new mother encounters an old lover after her daily swim and inexplicably lies to him.
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.
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria. She is the prizewinning author of six novels and three short story collections. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, Edge Hill Short Story Prize, among others, and the only person ever to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice.
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