he is a bratty boy who has seen some horrifying things in his short life and is wild and unmoored (hahahhaha DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?) from christian respectability, but he is just some obnoxious kid - he could be anyone. but then it coarsens a little and slips with the introduction of the heathcliff character who is, of course, not called heathcliff at this point in his life.
It starts out fine - she does a really good job of describing the furniture and the birds and the kitchen area - it has all the trappings of a true bronte novel. it is a lightweight ghost story that pretty much just rips off the wicker man (the original, not the remake, please), and doesn't really contribute anything to the wuthering heights mythos. Without the appeal of this being a preteen heathcliff, there is no real reason to read this. but you also can't have mary poppins taking tea with george orwell. how clumsy is that? you can't market this as being a "prelude" to wuthering heights and then cop out and try to make it seem like it might only have been the inspiration for wuthering heights. so you have two central characters: the real-life housekeeper of the brontes and the-boy-who-would-be-heathcliff, who was fictional, correct? and you have the housekeeper character ultimately telling this story to her charges, the four young bronte children, with dear emily listening raptly. This is supposed to be the story of heathcliff as a ten-year-old boy. That should be the whole review right there, just "no." We hope to live here at least through 2017. In 2012, now grandparents, Joe and I moved back to Germany, where we are once again enjoying the bike trails, wine fests, and amazing travel opportunities. We returned to San Antonio in the summer of 2007, when my younger daughter Elena began college. My family moved to Germany in 2000, and we lived for seven years in the Rheinland Pfalz region, not far from the old Roman city of Trier. I earned tenure as the monographs cataloger at Trinity University's Coates Library from 1990 to 1999 then I left the library to homeschool my two daughters, Valerie and Elena.
After graduating from Indiana University with a master's degree in library science, I came back to San Antonio to work when my husband, Joe, joined the engineering staff at Kelly Air Force Base. in Russian with a minor in Latin from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. I was born Clare Buckalew in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in Denton, Texas, a city north of Dallas.
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