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A short story by Lionel Shriver from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.
In ‘The Self-Seeding Sycamore’, a widow wages war upon her neighbour’s garden, and makes a surprising discovery.
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.
Lionel Shriver
LIONEL SHRIVER’S novels include the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, the Sunday Times bestseller The Mandibles, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, winner of the Orange Prize. A regular on multiple podcasts, she’s written fortnightly columns for the Spectator since 2017. Her journalism has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, The Times, UnHerd, the FT, The Free Press, Spiked Online and many other media outlets.
She lives in Portugal and Brooklyn, New York.
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