# Sanctuary

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- Book: [Sanctuary](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-edric/sanctuary) ([Sanctuary.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-edric/sanctuary.md))
- Authors: [Robert Edric](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-edric)
- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 7 h 55 min
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- ISBN: 978-14-7352-598-6
- Published: 2014-12-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 7 h 55 min

## Description

Haworth, West Yorkshire, 1848. Branwell Brontë - unexhibited artist, unacknowledged writer, sacked railwayman, disgraced tutor and spurned lover -finds himself unhappily back in Haworth Parsonage, to face the crushing disappointment of his father and his three sisters, whose own pseudonymous successes - allegedly kept secret from him – are only just becoming apparent. With his health failing rapidly, his literary aspirations abandoned and his once loyal circle of friends shrinking fast, Branwell lives in a world of secrets, conspiracies and seemingly endless betrayals. To restore himself to a creative and fulfilling existence in the face of an increasingly claustrophobic environment, he returns to the drugs, alcohol and the morbid self-delusion which have already played such a large part in his unhappy life. Sanctuary is a lacerating and moving portrait of self-destruction. In it, Robert Edric has reimagined the final months of one of the great bystanders of literary history, and, in so doing, has shone a penetrating light on one of the most celebrated and perennially fascinating families in our creative history.