Ill Will

‘An astonishing novel’ The Independent

‘A terrific tribute to the Brontë’s' Guardian

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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 Emily’s 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.

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Praise for Michael Stewart:

‘A terrific tribute to the Brontë’s. It also beautifully shows how landscape grows in the imagination’ The Guardian

'Even darker and grittier than it’s predecessor, and rather gory and violent in places, but that’s Heathcliff all over' Reader Review

'Passionate and intense … an essential addition to the bookshelves of all Wuthering Heights fans' Reader Review

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Praise for Michael Stewart:

‘A vivid, inventive narrative’ Sunday Times

‘Stewart’s descriptions of nature are superb’ Daily Mail

'Will leave you breathless’ Sunday Post

About the author

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.