Even at 14, most students understand that the novel is not really a love story, let alone “the greatest love story of all time”, and is about far more besides. Namely: revenge, class struggle, power, whiteness, the violence of a system that worships it and generational trauma. Heathcliff is a child, likely of foreign origin, who is plucked from the streets of Liverpool by Cathy’s father, only to be horribly neglected and abused and, he thinks, rejected by Cathy – because of his poverty and his brownness. He spends the second half of the novel exacting his revenge on the next generation of Earnshaws and Lintons. Whatever Heathcliff’s origins, Wuthering Heights is a novel about racism, power, abuse and its legacy.