Waiting on The Mist of Bronte Moor by Aviva Orr

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights any upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

The Mist on Bronte Moor by Aviva Orr

Publication Date: January 8, 2013

When fifteen-year-old Heather Jane Bell is diagnosed with alopecia and her hair starts falling out in clumps, she wants nothing more than to escape her home in London and disappear off the face of the earth.

Heather gets her wish when her concerned parents send her to stay with her great-aunt in West Yorkshire. But shortly after she arrives, she becomes lost on the moors and is swept through the mist back to the year 1833. There she encounters fifteen-year-old Emily Brontë and is given refuge in the Brontë Parsonage.

Unaware of her host family’s genius and future fame, Heather struggles to cope with alopecia amongst strangers in a world completely foreign to her. While Heather finds comfort and strength in her growing friendship with Emily and in the embrace of the close-knit Brontë family, her emotions are stretched to the limit when she falls for Emily’s brilliant but troubled brother, Branwell.

Will Heather return to the comforts and conveniences of the twenty-first century? Or will she choose love and remain in the harsh world of nineteenth-century Haworth? (Goodreads)

A work of pseudo-historical fiction about the Bronte sisters!? Although I've read and loved Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights, I actually don't know very much about the Bronte sisters. I know they published a few books under non-gendered pseudonyms and that all died tragically young. I'd love to learn more about their family, even within a work of fiction. 

I find books with time travel and alternate universes endlessly fascinating. I hope that Heather actually helps influence some of their books, and that without her having gone back in time the Brontes would not have been able to achieve the fame they had. I wish that I could travel back in time myself to meet some famous literary figures. That would be one of the best things ever. So yes, this sounds like my type of book.

What are you waiting on?