This Thing of Darkness

 A new Wuthering Heights sequel has been published:

This Thing of Darkness. Heathcliff's Lost Years

by Nicola Edwards

Aderyn Press

ISBN: 978-1916398689

Blown into an inn on the edge of the moors, sodden, rejected, and hankering for revenge, he steals a horse and sets out for Liverpool in search of answers. The town he arrives in is a brutal new world, brimming in equal measure with risk and opportunity. Here, Heathcliff might map his future, make his fortune, forge a role for himself. But at what cost…

Reimagining the three years during which Heathcliff is absent from Wuthering Heights, This Thing of Darkness traverses countries and oceans in pursuit of one of literature's best-known characters.

Irish Examiner interviews the author:

“I loved my library card, and I kept up a diary from the age of 12.” When she first read
Wuthering Heights, aged 14, she hated it, but rereading it three years later, she changed her mind.

“Heathcliff became this antagonist and a force to be reckoned with,” she says.

“I taught Wuthering Heights for A-level, and asked the class to imagine where Heathcliff goes during his absence. They came up with all kinds of ideas, but I relish historical realism, and I decided to make him a product of his environment, with a link to colonialism and the slave trade. The Brontë’s read Blackwood’s Magazine, so they would have been aware of the Empire.”  (Sue Leonard)