Beginner’s Pluck: Nicola Edwards on reimagining Heathcliff via colonialism

"Persevere. And write what you want to write rather than think about the market."

Nicola Edwards, author of This Thing of Darkness

An only child in a family of non-readers, Nicola always had a vivid imagination.

“I loved my library card, and I kept up a diary from the age of 12.” When she first read Wuthering Heights, aged 14, she hated it, but rereading it three years later, she changed her mind.