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      The Borough Press

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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

       Praise for I Am Heathcliff

      ‘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

       Dedication

      For EB, in whose

      footsteps we walk

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      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

       FOREWORD BY KATE MOSSE

      ‘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! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.’

      THERE IS A HANDFUL of books that exist beyond their time and space, beyond the circumstances of their invention: novels that are significant, novels that are beloved. Familiar friends. Their characters step off the pages of the novel and into the real world, into a public conscience to be used ever after as shorthand for a certain sort of person. Archetypes, I suppose. Stories that seem bigger than the books that contain them. Wuthering Heights is such a book. Cathy and Heathcliff are such characters.

      Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights is a novel that changes its character and colour with every reading, yet remains uniquely and absolutely itself. It is variously a Gothic novel of obsession and revenge; a story of ghosts and bad dreams; a novel of opposites – light and shade, wild Nature versus taming civilisation, storm versus calm, violence versus tenderness, revenge versus forgiveness, the North versus the South; a novel of race and class, of the powerlessness of women’s and children’s lives; a novel about poverty, property, and wealth; a novel about how the sins of the fathers (and dead or powerless mothers) are visited on the next generation; a story