what Ellis does extraordinarily well is to convey the emotion of her own deeply personal voyage of discovery about Anne and herself. Her indignation is salutary' - Lucy Hughes-Hallet * Observer * 'A fascinating and compelling read. I was wowed and moved' - Tracy Chevalier 'A lively, intelligent tribute to the forgotten Bronte sister, Anne. But Samantha Ellis has looked at the family from a new angle, and in doing so brought Anne out of the shadows and placed her front and centre amongst her splashier siblings. 'The best kind of book: one that I gobbled up, wanting to go slow to savour it but unable to stop reading until it was all gone' Observer 'I thought that everything had already been said about the Brontes.

'Delightfully honest and warmly funny' Daily Mail A fantastically inspirational memoir that makes you want to reread far too many books' Observer 'Any woman with a remotely bookish childhood will find great pleasure in How to be a Heroine' Sunday Times A brave, strongly feminist writer well ahead of her time - and her more celebrated siblings - and who has much to teach us today about how to find our way in the world. Take Courage is Samantha's personal, poignant and surprising journey into the life and work of a woman sidelined by history. Until, that is, she started questioning that devotion and, in looking more closely at Emily and Charlotte, found herself confronted by Anne instead.

Or that's what Samantha Ellis, a life-long Emily and Wuthering Heights devotee, had always thought. The less talented Bronte, the other Bronte. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. Anne Bronte is the forgotten Bronte sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell.

Take Courage by Samantha Ellis