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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
In the compilation and introductory material © Kate Mosse 2018
Terminus © Louise Doughty 2018; Anima © Grace McCleen 2018; A Bird, Half-Eaten © Nikesh Shukla 2018; Thicker Than Blood © Erin Kelly 2018; One Letter Different © Joanna Cannon 2018; The Howling Girl © Laurie Penny 2018; Five Sites, Five Stages © Lisa McInerney 2018; Kit © Juno Dawson 2018; My Eye Is a Button on Your Dress © Hanan al-Shaykh 2018; The Cord © Alison Case 2018; Heathcliffs I Have Known © Louisa Young 2018; Amulet and Feathers © Leila Aboulela 2018; How Things Disappear © Anna James 2018; The Wildflowers © Dorothy Koomson 2018; Heathcliff Is Not My Name © Michael Stewart 2018; Only Joseph © Sophie Hannah 2018
The moral rights of the authors have been asserted
Cover design by Holly Macdonald © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018
Cover photographs © Sally Mundy/Trevillion Images
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
These stories are entirely works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them, while at times based on historical events and figures, are the works of the authors’ imaginations.
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Source ISBN: 9780008257460
Ebook Edition © April 2019 ISBN: 9780008257453
Version: 2019-01-15
‘Visceral writing that lays bare the savagery of Heathcliff’
Financial Times
‘Inspired by Wuthering Heights, these tales of toxic relationships, an entirely disturbing episode of stalking and necrophilia, blighted lives and bleak landscapes reveal that contemporary responses to Emily Brontë’s endlessly controversial classic can be equally stark, cruel and shocking’
Daily Mail
‘Tales of toxic relationships, a hungry, howling, anorexic ghost, drug addles lovers and blighted lives and landscapes … But there are surprises in store, too. Crime writer Sophie Hannah delivers a high school musical murder mystery while Louisa Young’s Heathcliffs I Have Known is a furious, funny, riotous rant on the role of this supposedly romantic hero’
Sunday Express S Magazine
For EB, in whose
footsteps we walk
Contents
Copyright
Praise
Dedication
Foreword by Kate Mosse
Terminus – Louise Doughty
Anima – Grace McCleen
A Bird, Half-Eaten – Nikesh Shukla
Thicker Than Blood – Erin Kelly
One Letter Different – Joanna Cannon
The Howling Girl – Laurie Penny
Five Sites, Five Stages – Lisa McInerney
Kit – Juno Dawson
My Eye Is a Button on Your Dress – Hanan al-Shaykh
The Cord – Alison Case
Heathcliffs I Have Known – Louisa Young
Amulet and Feathers – Leila Aboulela
How Things Disappear – Anna James
The Wildflowers – Dorothy Koomson
Heathcliff Is Not My Name – Michael Stewart
Only Joseph – Sophie Hannah
Footnotes
Notes on the Contributors
A Note on Emily Brontë
About Kate Mosse and the Brontë Parsonage
About the Publisher
‘My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!
