The power of literature

The Telegraph (as do many others) has an obituary of Maryse Condé.

In Britain she caused a minor stir in 1998 with her novel Windward Heights, which, sacrilegiously in the view of some, transposed the story of Wuthering Heights to Guadeloupe.

This homage to the book that changed her life – “it showed the power of literature: that you can be an English author but reach close to the heart of a Caribbean child” – saw Heathcliff renamed Rayze (Creole for “heath”) and endowed with dreadlocks, while Cathy became a beauty with skin the “colour of hot syrup”, who “wiggles her bonda and dances the gwo-ka every evening”.

Derbyshire Times is looking forward to a stage production of Wuthering Heights.

Chapterhouse Theatre Company is bringing its adaptation of Emily Bronte’s savage tale to the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton on April 13 and 14, 2024. [...]

Laura Turner’s adaptation, directed by Antony Law, brings the savage moorlands and tumbledown manor houses of this gothic classic to the stage in atmospheric and timeless style. The Stage described Chapterhouse Theatre Company’s presentation of Wuthering Heights as: “A rugged and fearless production.”

Buxton is the first of four towns in England to host Wuthering Heights on the final leg of its international tour. Chapterhouse Theatre Company has just returned from a four-week tour of China. (Gay Bolton)

Highway Mail thinks that The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden is the perfect novel for fans of Jane Eyre.