Nelly’s story is compelling, twining through the holes in the original novel and fleshing out both her character and that of Hindley Earnshaw, Catherine’s older brother and the main antagonist in Wuthering Heights. Case’s new book features Nelly Dean as both the narrator and the main character. Wuthering Heights is narrated by the Earnshaws’ longtime housekeeper, Nelly Dean, but the reader never learns much about her. Heathcliff and Catherine both marry members of the Linton family, everyone is unhappy, and pretty much everyone dies. Heathcliff and the Earnshaws’ daughter, Catherine, fall in love, but family tensions keep them apart. Earnshaw adopts a foundling and names him Heathcliff. The Earnshaw family and the Linton family are well-to-do farming neighbors on the Yorkshire moors in early 19th-century England. I wouldn’t recommend it for readers who have not read Wuthering Heights, but if you have read it and just don’t remember it too well, here are the broad strokes. This book is billed as a reimagining of Wuthering Heights, but really it is an expansion of the classic love story.
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