Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

A totally absorbing and wonderful book; not so much a love story as is nowadays portrayed in the media, but really a story about what happens when you put a "cuckoo in the nest". The cuckoo is Heathcliff, an abandoned child who is adopted by a well meaning father and introduced suddenly into his previously stable family. The fact that the child is quite clearly of a different social class doesn't help. Heathcliff is a violent character, and today would probably find himself doing a spell or two in prison.
Gill 26/7/98

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