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A modern-day Wuthering Heights? Has it been attempted before? No doubt. Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth is an eloquent and engaging modern take with a twist. Imagine Heathcliff, and Emily Brontë for that matter, free of the constraints of the Victorian frame of mind. Hoffman's character is as compelling as Brontë's but in this modern re-telling is given licence to use sex as a manipulative tool. Don't miss it. The writing is superb.