Teens in Tights

It seems that the Queen of Teen's latest novel has something to do with Wuthering Heights:

Withering Tights
by Louise Rennison
ISBN: 978-0-00-715683-2 (Hardback)
Format: Hardback/Paperback/Audiobook
Imprint: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks

The misadventures of Tallulah Casey… Hilarious new series from Queen of Teen – laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatic antics of Talullah and her bonkers mates. Boys, snogging and bad acting guaranteed!

Picture the scene: Dother Hall performing arts college somewhere Up North, surrounded by rolling dales, bearded cheesemaking villagers (male and female) and wildlife of the squirrely-type. On the whole, it’s not quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting… but once her mates turn up and they start their ‘FAME! I’m gonna liiiiive foreeeeeever, I’m gonna fill my tiiiiights’ summer course things are bound to perk up. Especially when the boys arrive. (When DO the boys arrive?) Six weeks of parent-free freedom. BOY freedom. Freedom of expression… cos it’s the THEATRE dahling, theatre!!

A review from the Buckinghamshire Advertiser:

RENNISON, author of the hugely successful Confessions of Georgia Nicholson books introduces us to a new teen heroine, Georgia's cousin Tallulah Casey.
Tallulah, who is 14, is spending her summer in the Yorkshire Dales at Dother Hall Performing Arts College.
Gangly, Irish dancing, Tallulah lacks natural performance skills, but has an abundance of energy and humour.
However, after only getting 45 per cent for her mid-term assessment, she has to pass her end of term assignment - a play based on Wuthering Heights that she has to write and produce - in order to be offered a permanent place at the school.

And what the author says about the Wuthering Heights tributes? From her website:

Why is the book called Withering Tights?
Because its an HILARIOUS play on ‘Wuthering Heights”, Do you see. And Cain Hinchliffe is Mr Darcy…oh no hang on a minute he's not in Wuthering heights is he? Is he? Oh I am so very very tired.

Categories: Books, References, Wuthering Heights