Voices: Readers say Wuthering Heights is a ‘masterpiece full of nuance’ – but films rarely do it justice

As Emerald Fennell’s hotly anticipated Wuthering Heights adaptation arrives this week, our community said the novel is meant to unsettle rather than seduce – and that its cruelty, complexity and discomfort are precisely what make it one of the greatest works of fiction ever written


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