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 was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the
prize-winning author of five novels – Haweswater, The
Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army, How to Paint
a Dead Man and The Wolf Border – as well as The Beautiful
Indifference, a collection of short stories which won the
Portico and Edge Hill prizes. The first story in the collection,
“Butchers Perfume”, was shortlisted for the BBC National
Short Story Award, a prize she won in 2013 with “Mrs Fox”.