But when the benevolence of the master brings a wild child into the house, Nelly learns she must follow in her mother’s footsteps, be called “servant” and give herself over completely to the demands of the Earnshaw family.īut Nelly is not the only one who finds her life disrupted by this strange newcomer. Young Nelly Dean has been Hindley’s closest companion for as long as she can remember, living freely at the great house, Wuthering Heights. Her attraction to Hollis is overwhelming-and March jeopardizes her marriage, her relationship with her daughter and her own happiness in an attempt to reclaim the past. Dale, who knew more of love than March could ever have suspected, and her brother Alan, whose tragic history has left him grief-struck, with alcohol as his only solace. When Hollis left her after a petty fight, March waited for him three long years, wondering what she had done wrong.Įncountering Hollis again makes March acutely aware of the choices that she has made, and the choices everyone around her has made-including Mrs. Yet March and Hollis’s passionate love was hardly a normal sibling relationship.
March’s father had taken the teenaged Hollis, an abandoned child, and the product of a series of detention homes, into his house as a boarder, and treated him like a son. Yet returning to her hometown also brings her back to Hollis, March’s former soul mate and lover.
After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her.
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