Hello and welcome to this episode of Chronicles, where today we're going to be talking all about Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Now, I will just tell you that

this particular book has been sat on my shelf for years and years now, and I'm sure I bought it

at some secondhand bookstore many years back, obviously intending to get round to it, and this has

given me the perfect opportunity to do so.

So by all means, let's cue the Kate Bush and get on with it, shall we?

So because this is my first time reading it, I will just say out of the gate that I can

already tell that this is a novel that is well worthy of its reputation,

but also a novel that's definitely going to reward you for numerous readings.

You can tell that there is so many subtle details weaved into the text.

And it's really remarkable, honestly, from the beginning of the story, I was

genuinely hooked by it. And another thing as well that I think just kept me so engaged in the

tale was the fact that it was so different to the story that I was actually expecting, because you have all of these Hollywood films

that kind of paint the relationship between Kathy and Heathcliff as a classic romance in many

ways, because that's obviously the type of story that Hollywood want to tell. But I think actually that's to do a

real disservice to the type of relationship that Emily Bronte is putting to the page here.

Because it really caught me by surprise. It's far from romantic, really. It's very, very, very toxic, very destructive. And also as well,

just to say that that relationship between Heathcliff and Kathy, which you see over and over again

on the film, is actually only the first half of the novel as well. This is a story of generations and how what happened

to that generation obviously goes on to impact the second generation through the cycle of

revenge and healing and all these sorts of questions. And so it's a really ambitious story and it's made all the more

wonderful having it set, um, seeped in this Gothic mystique, you know, as it takes place on the

Yorkshire malls, which, um, if you've never been to, by the way, I well, you know, advise you to go

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