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EPISODE · Feb 25, 2026 · 17 MIN

Does Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation do justice to the original novel?

from The Bookshelf · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Emerald Fennell's film adaptation of Wuthering Heights has been marketed as "the greatest love story ever told", which is not typically the description given to the original novel. What does this adaptation achieve, and what does it sacrifice in the process?The Bookshelf's Kate Evans and Radio National's Arts Hour's Sky Kirkham discuss what they felt did and didn't work in this film and, in an expanded podcast extra edition, they also discussed the film adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet

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