Emily Bronte's Tale of all-consuming love is an omnipotent force to be reckoned with. It's an intoxicating read-- Marie Claire A beautiful gift, and perfect gems for bookworms.-- So Darling A dark and passionate tale of tortured but enduring love. Mesmerising-- Guardian This brilliantly atmospheric Yorkshire saga has only one drawback - Emily never wrote another novel. For me, it is both fantastic but also true to life because the protagonists have such believably fierce emotions--Kate Mosse When I was 16 I read Wuthering Heights for the first time, and I read it as a kind of oracle; that life is worth nothing if it is not worth everything. Disaster does not matter, intensity does. You can dilute Wuthering Heights , as Mills & Boon and musicals have done. But if you are honest, you cannot escape its central stark premise; all or nothing.

The all is not Heathcliff - that is the sentimental version. The all is what Heathcliff represents, which is life itself--Jeanette Winterson.