The Heights, Juliet Bell
The Heights, Juliet Bell
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The Heights

Author: Juliet Bell

Narrator: Jonathan Oliver

Unabridged: 11 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HQ Digital

Published: 01/25/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Mashups


Synopsis

#2 in ’s ‘Pick of the Best Books’ 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 judgement, 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. Two hundred years since Emily Brontë’s birth comes : a modern re-telling of set in 1980s Yorkshire. Readers love Juliet Bell: “A , cleverly re-telling the story of Wuthering Heights in a convincing modern context… A .” “ modern re-telling of Emily Bronte's classic.” “The Heights is an read” “A read” “gripping and dark and an !!” “ read.”

Reviews

Well, I guess it kept me reading, but there was no great depth to the characters and so I never formed an emotional attachment to anything happening. I don't understand why everyone was getting married at like sixteen. Maybe they were just bored. Also the constant "he's family." Actually he's just t......more

Goodreads review by Jae

**ARC provided by authors in exchange for an honest review** The Heights by Juliet Bell is a collaborative project by Janet Gover and Allison May to retell Emily Brontë’s classic, Wuthering Heights in a contemporary setting, 1980s Yorkshire. This ambitious undertaking succeeds admirably as you are sw......more

Goodreads review by Claire

A five-star adaptation of a four-star classic. 4/5 stars. (*Ducks for avoid rocks thrown by Emily Brontë fans*) This review was originally posted on my book blog. The Heights is an excellent modern retelling of Emily Brontë's classic tale. The transposition of the events of Wuthering Heights to the lat......more