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Title: The Heights
Author: Juliet Bell
Narrator: Jonathan Oliver
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-25-18
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Two hundred years since Emily Brontë's birth comes The Heights: a modern retelling of Wuthering Heights set in 1980s Yorkshire.
The searchers took several hours to find the body, even though they knew roughly where to look. The whole hillside had collapsed, and there was water running off the moors and over the slick black rubble. The boy, they knew, was beyond their help.
This was a recovery, not a rescue.
A grim discovery brings DCI Lockwood to Gimmerton's Heights Estate - a bleak patch of Yorkshire he thought he'd left behind for good. There, he must do the unthinkable and ask questions about the notorious Earnshaw family.
Decades may have passed since Maggie closed the pits and the Earnshaws ran riot - but old wounds remain raw. And, against his better judgment, DCI Lockwood is soon drawn into a story.
A story of an untameable boy, terrible rage, and two families ripped apart. A story of passion, obsession and dark acts of revenge. And of beautiful Cathy Earnshaw - who now lies buried under cold white marble in the shadow of the moors.
Members Reviews:
a compelling tribute
The Heights by Juliet Bell is a collaborative project by Janet Gover and Allison May to retell Emily Brontâs classic, Wuthering Heights in a contemporary setting, 1980s Yorkshire. This ambitious undertaking succeeds admirably as you are swept along as DCI Lockwood attempts to determine what really happened to Luke Earnshaw. Was it really an accident or something more sinister? Death seems to follow Heathcliff Earnshaw and everyone he comes into contact with.
âBecause heâs family.â â Harry
You would think that would mean something, but the two families at the heart of this story, the Lintons and the Earnshaws, could not be more different. Ray Earnshaw works at the mine, but with the looming strike times are very hard. The Lintons are wealthy, cultured and seemingly have everything. Cathy is a young child when her father brings home, Heathcliff. Cathyâs mother, Shirley, is already worn out being a minerâs wife barely scraping by, so she is really not interested in an extra child. When she leaves, rather than going to school Cathy and Heathcliff spend their days together in the blue hills. Thus begins a relationship (obsession?) that will destroy the lives of so many around them.
Cathy just wants out of the Heights. She is tired of everything being dirty and shabby. One day, Cathy meets Isabelle and Edward Linton, whose father has moved the family here to shut down the mine, but Cathy just sees Edward as her way out. He has money and a future and she wants it. How many people will have their lives ended or destroyed by Cathyâs selfishness or Heathcliffâs obsession?
At the time, Wuthering Heights, got mixed reviews. The darkness and near evil were too much for some readers and captivating to others. To have two thoroughly unlikeable protagonists was and still is uncomfortable. Emily Brontâs themes stand the test of time and this collaboration is a compelling tribute. Definitely recommend. Five stars.
You'll like this more if you don't read it as a ...
You'll like this more if you don't read it as a modernized version of Wuthering Heights and read it as a tale of Yorkshire in the tough 1980s. I loved WH- but it's been many many years since I read it so at first I found myself straining to remember the story. Once I let go of that, I was happier.
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Title: The Heights
Author: Juliet Bell
Narrator: Jonathan Oliver
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-25-18
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Two hundred years since Emily Brontë's birth comes The Heights: a modern retelling of Wuthering Heights set in 1980s Yorkshire.
The searchers took several hours to find the body, even though they knew roughly where to look. The whole hillside had collapsed, and there was water running off the moors and over the slick black rubble. The boy, they knew, was beyond their help.
This was a recovery, not a rescue.
A grim discovery brings DCI Lockwood to Gimmerton's Heights Estate - a bleak patch of Yorkshire he thought he'd left behind for good. There, he must do the unthinkable and ask questions about the notorious Earnshaw family.
Decades may have passed since Maggie closed the pits and the Earnshaws ran riot - but old wounds remain raw. And, against his better judgment, DCI Lockwood is soon drawn into a story.
A story of an untameable boy, terrible rage, and two families ripped apart. A story of passion, obsession and dark acts of revenge. And of beautiful Cathy Earnshaw - who now lies buried under cold white marble in the shadow of the moors.
Members Reviews:
a compelling tribute
The Heights by Juliet Bell is a collaborative project by Janet Gover and Allison May to retell Emily Brontâs classic, Wuthering Heights in a contemporary setting, 1980s Yorkshire. This ambitious undertaking succeeds admirably as you are swept along as DCI Lockwood attempts to determine what really happened to Luke Earnshaw. Was it really an accident or something more sinister? Death seems to follow Heathcliff Earnshaw and everyone he comes into contact with.
âBecause heâs family.â â Harry
You would think that would mean something, but the two families at the heart of this story, the Lintons and the Earnshaws, could not be more different. Ray Earnshaw works at the mine, but with the looming strike times are very hard. The Lintons are wealthy, cultured and seemingly have everything. Cathy is a young child when her father brings home, Heathcliff. Cathyâs mother, Shirley, is already worn out being a minerâs wife barely scraping by, so she is really not interested in an extra child. When she leaves, rather than going to school Cathy and Heathcliff spend their days together in the blue hills. Thus begins a relationship (obsession?) that will destroy the lives of so many around them.
Cathy just wants out of the Heights. She is tired of everything being dirty and shabby. One day, Cathy meets Isabelle and Edward Linton, whose father has moved the family here to shut down the mine, but Cathy just sees Edward as her way out. He has money and a future and she wants it. How many people will have their lives ended or destroyed by Cathyâs selfishness or Heathcliffâs obsession?
At the time, Wuthering Heights, got mixed reviews. The darkness and near evil were too much for some readers and captivating to others. To have two thoroughly unlikeable protagonists was and still is uncomfortable. Emily Brontâs themes stand the test of time and this collaboration is a compelling tribute. Definitely recommend. Five stars.
You'll like this more if you don't read it as a ...
You'll like this more if you don't read it as a modernized version of Wuthering Heights and read it as a tale of Yorkshire in the tough 1980s. I loved WH- but it's been many many years since I read it so at first I found myself straining to remember the story. Once I let go of that, I was happier.