08/04/2026
Thanks for the review Dominique!
RRL Reads: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
With the movie recently released there has been a lot of hype about Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, so I was keen to read it again.
For me, a great book is one that stays with me long after I’ve finished reading it. It might be a scene that is carved in my memory for all time or a line that I will always remember. It might be a character. Wuthering Heights is all this for me and more.
The story is slow paced and dark. Blood relations are intertwined and confusing. Racism, class, domestic violence and the inequality of women in the early 19th century are all embedded within the story of the inseparable, yet destructive, relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff.
It would seem impossible to love a book where the characters are so flawed and yet I do.
PS I haven’t yet seen the movie!
-Dominique Heriot, Holbrook Library
Greater Hume Council Libraries