‘An astonishing novel’ The IndependentI am William Lee: brute; liar, and graveside thief.But you will know me by another name.‘An astonishing novel’ The IndependentI am William Lee: brute; liar, and graveside thief.But you will know me by another name.Heathcliff has left Wuthering Heights, and is travelling across the moors to Liverpool in search of his past.Along the way, he saves Emily, the foul-mouthed daughter of a Highwayman, from a whipping, and the pair journey on together.Roaming from graveyard to graveyard, making a living from Emily’s apparent ability to commune with the dead, the pair lie, cheat and scheme their way across the North of England.And towards the terrible misdeeds – and untold riches – that will one day send Heathcliff home to Wuthering Heights.Michael Stewart is a multi-award winning writer, born and brought up in Salford, who moved to Yorkshire in 1995 and is now based in Bradford. He has written several full length stage plays, one of which, Karry Owky, was joint winner of the King’s Cross Award for New Writing. His debut novel, King Crow, was published in January 2011. It won the Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award and has been selected as a recommended read for World Book Night.He works as a is senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield, where he is the director of the Huddersfield Literature Festival.•Superbly written gothic fiction which explores the untold story of Heathcliff, and authentically captures the bleak, earthy tone of Emily Bronte’s classic Wuthering Heights.• Heathcliff is perhaps Britain’s best loved anti-hero. Wuthering Heights came in at #12 in the BBC’s 2003 The Big Read, where over three quarters of a million British people voted for their favourite book of all time.•Author is in talks with the BBC to create a documentary to go alongside this novel and the Bronte stones he is working on with the parsonage.• The author has previously written literary fiction, and won the Guardian’s Not the Booker with his novel King Crow.• Michael has written a story for Borough Press’s I Am Heathcliff anthology, to be published in July 2018• Film and TV rights have been optioned by Kudos, the company behind the smash-hit Gunpowder.
Publicat de: HarperCollins Publishers