It’s highly unlikely a person will make it through life with their heart in one piece. Heartbreak is inevitable. Indeed, literature is replete with heartbreak, all due to failed romance, death, or betrayal. But at the same time it reminds us that broken hearts can mend. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre depicts lost yet redeemable love, which refuses to give up.

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of Mr. Rochester’s first wife, Antoinette Cosway Mason

Mr. Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker

A review on the back of the book reads: “If you’ve ever wondered about the backstory of the man who Jane eventually teaches to love again, Mr. Rochester is officially wish fulfillment.” This is Edward Fairfax Rochester’s story, as told from his point of view.