The Heights is a modern retelling of the story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, set in a northern mining town from the Winter of Discontent, through the Thatcher era, and the years leading up to the global financial crisis.
In 2008, the unexplained death of a teenage boy brings DCI Nelson Lockwood back to the former mining town of Gimmerton, where he is caught up in a decades-old story of obsession and tragedy. Set against the backdrop of the miners’ strike and the decline of a once proud pit community, The Heights explores the destructive power of obsession: Heathcliff’s obsession with Cathy, Cathy’s obsession with status and wealth, and Lockwood’s obsession with a moment from the past – and how the ghosts of those obsessions echo through the generations.
The Heights is currently out of print.