Wuthering Heights audiobook review — Aimee Lou Wood
A report from Theguardian says rare is the Wuthering Heights adaptation that fails to ruffle the feathers of the Brontë faithful. The piece favours this 2020 edition narrated by Aimee Lou Wood, of Sex Education and The White Lotus fame. Set in Yorkshire, Emily Brontë’s tempestuous novel opens with Mr Lockwood, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, visiting his sullen landlord, Heathcliff, at his remote farmhouse where he gets snowed in.
Bedding down for the night, he stumbles upon the diaries of the late Catherine Earnshaw, who writes of her love for Heathcliff. Wood breathes fresh life into this tempestuous novel, capturing Nellie’s gossipy tone and the early wildness of Catherine and Heathcliff.
As circumstances pull these once inseparable youngsters apart, that wild abandon curdles into desolation and discord that is carried down the generations. Available via Penguin Audio, 13hr 58min.