Many of us will have read Jane Eyre at GCSE level, as it’s one of many set texts you have to study. This is enough to put off some people – being forced to read anything often takes the pleasure out of it. But it’s chosen for GCSE courses with good reason; the plot is exciting, but not too complicated. It also covers a lot of issues and things that we still have to deal with today, so the book is relevant in a way that many others are not, because they become outdated and very obviously products of their time.

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