Ill Will
By (Author) Michael Stewart
HarperCollins Publishers
HQ
19th November 2018
1st November 2018
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
Horror and supernatural fiction
Narrative theme: Sense of place
823.92
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 21mm
230g
An astonishing novel The Independent
I am William Lee: brute; liar, and graveside thief.
But you will know me by another name.
Heathcliff has left Wuthering Heights, and is travelling across the moors to Liverpool in search of his past.
Along the way, he saves Emily, the foul-mouthed daughter of a Highwayman, from a whipping, and the pair journey on together.
Roaming from graveyard to graveyard, making a living from Emilys apparent ability to commune with the dead, the pair lie, cheat and scheme their way across the North of England.
And towards the terrible misdeeds and untold riches that will one day send Heathcliff home to Wuthering Heights.
Michael Stewart is a multi-award winning writer, born and brought up in Salford, who moved to Yorkshire in 1995 and is now based in Bradford. He has written several full length stage plays, one of which, Karry Owky, was joint winner of the King's Cross Award for New Writing. His debut novel, King Crow, was published in January 2011. It won the Guardian's Not-the-Booker Award and has been selected as a recommended read for World Book Night. He works as a is senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield, where he is the director of the Huddersfield Literature Festival.