![]() ![]() ![]() She discovers socialising, parties and masked balls, and also the love which will ruin her and reduce her to a shell of her former self. As she becomes a young adult, she moves to the manor of an impoverished noble family who are expected to provide her the requisite social “polish” for high society. As a result, a half-brother is added to the household who is thoroughly unlikeable and who takes great delight in upsetting his sister. Such a sorry start in life is continued when she finds out that her beloved father has another family in addition to her. Throughout the book the reader watches Miss Havisham grow up a lonely child with only a young maid for a companion. ![]() The book both shows the descent into madness of Dickens’s infamous character, but also explains how she comes to be who she is. Havisham, is a book based on the life of Great Expectations’ Miss Catherine Havisham, the mad woman who, after being left at the altar, takes in the orphan Estella and teaches her to break the hearts of men. ![]()
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