It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now…”
Cathy’s immortal words from Wuthering Heights change Heathcliff’s life. At just seventeen years of age, heartbroken and penniless, he runs away to face an unknown future.
Three years later, he returns – much improved in manners, appearance and prosperity.
But what happened during those years? How could he have made his fortune, from nothing? Who might his parents have been? And what fate turned him into literature’s most famous anti-hero?
For almost two centuries, these questions have remained unanswered.
Until now…
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Extract:
In this extract, Heathcliff describes what happened after he left Wuthering Heights.
I was very nearly run over by the coach. As it was, I escaped with a few bruises and a cut to my arm.
The coach has taken me as far as an inn on the edge of the moors, where it stopped for the night. The coachman insisted that I should come with them, as he was concerned about my injury. The innkeeper’s wife also took pity on me, giving me some hot broth and a mug of spiced ale before offering me a cheap room in the rafters.
During the evening, I spoke briefly with the coachman as we sat by the fire in the bar-room. He told me that the coach is going to Liverpool, and will leave at first light in the morning to continue its journey westwards. He has agreed to let me travel with them.
I have very little memory of my life before old Mr Earnshaw brought me to The Heights, but I do remember him telling me that he first found me on the streets of Liverpool. How strange that fate has conspired to send me back there.
There is still some way to go, and I have very little money left after paying for my night’s accommodation here. But I must go on; I cannot go back to The Heights now.
Author Bio
Sue Barnard is a British novelist, editor and award-winning poet whose family background is far stranger than any work of fiction. She would write a book about it if she thought anybody would believe her.
Sue was born in North Wales but has spent most of her life in and around Manchester. She speaks French like a Belgian, German like a schoolgirl, and Italian and Portuguese like an Englishwoman abroad.
Her mind is so warped that she has appeared on BBC TV’s Only Connect quiz show, and she has also compiled questions for BBC Radio 4's fiendishly difficult Round Britain Quiz. This once caused one of her sons to describe her as "professionally weird." The label has stuck.
Sue’s first novel, The Ghostly Father (a new take on the traditional story of Romeo & Juliet), was officially released on St Valentine's Day 2014. Since then she has produced five more novels: Nice Girls Don’t (2014), The Unkindest Cut of All (2015), Never on Saturday (2017), Heathcliff (2018), and Finding Nina (2019).
Sue now lives in Cheshire, UK, with her extremely patient husband and a large collection of unfinished scribblings.
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