Expectations are great for this engaging 'prequel' to Dickens' classic.” - Good Housekeeping, New Book Picks “Before she took to pacing about her cobwebbed London manse in a tattered wedding gown, literature's most famous jilted bride, Miss Havisham, ran the family brewery. He spins his story slowly, tracing Catherine Havisham's journey from a young, unassuming heiress to the unhinged spinster so familiar to fans of Dickens' novel-tattered wedding dress, decrepit mansion, and all.Frame has brought a clean, modern sensibility to his rendering of the tale.Intensely entrancing plot. “Charles Dickens never revealed Miss Havisham's backstory in Great Expectations, but Ronald Frame fills in the blanks with his illuminating prequel, Havisham. What a plunge.” - Louis Bayard, The Washington Post “Delicate and closely observed.Frame has a nice feel for the epiphanic shudders of a young woman's heart and a watercolorist's eye for English landscapes.What a lark.
“This literary prequel imagines the life of Catherine Havisham, from privileged childhood to the macabre death scene of Dickens's Great Expectations.Frame's book is a pleasurable read.” - The New Yorker I don't know if Dickens would have been a fan, but I am.” - Owen King, The Los Angeles Review of Books The nightmare crone of Great Expectations has been made animate. It's an excruciatingly human rendering, flawed and frustrating. “Catherine's considerable ego is juxtaposed by more attractive qualities: following her father's death she is a tough, capable businesswoman during a period and at place when such a thing was unheard of she has carnal desires that she acts on. In Havisham, Ronald Frame unfurls the psychological trauma that made young Catherine into Miss Havisham and cursed her to a life alone, roaming the halls of the mansion in the tatters of the dress she wore for the wedding she was never to have.Ī Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013
But for all her growing sophistication, Catherine is anything but worldly, and when a charismatic stranger pays her attention, everything-her heart, her future, the very Havisham name-is vulnerable. Sent by her father to stay with the Chadwycks, Catherine discovers elegant pastimes to remove the taint of her family's new money. But she is never far from the smell of hops and the arresting letters on the brewhouse wall-HAVISHAM-a reminder of all she owes to the family name and the family business. Spry, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer.
HAVISHAM IS THE ASTONISHING PRELUDE TO CHARLES DICKENS'S GREAT EXPECTATIONS.īefore she became the immortal and haunting Miss Havisham of Great Expectations, she was Catherine, a young woman with all of her dreams ahead of her.
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