Faye, L. (2017). Jane Steele. Headline Review.
Jane Steele is inspired to write about her own life by a book she has read and loved, Jane Eyre. The lives of both Eyre and Steele at times mirror each other; both are orphaned and left in the hands of uncaring aunts and vicious headmasters only to come under the spell mysterious men who have secrets to keep. However in one way they differ greatly is that Jane Steele is a murderer many times over, sometimes for love, sometimes out of necessity, and now she looks to recover her birth-right.
While touching on dark themes such as murder, child abuse and domestic violence this book is also praised as being "wickedly entertaining" by Booklist and was nominated for an Edgar Award for best novel in 2017.
