Ceallaigh's Reviews > Windward Heights

“What is love? A bonfire of fluttering leaves that you light in the evening and in the morning is nothing more than a heap of ashes. That's it; that's it exactly. A catch, a zatrap. That's it; that's it exactly. You go to bed with a burning heart. You get up with both feet as cold as an old bag of bones. Only the departed remain handsome and desired forever.”

Wow. What a gut-punch of a story. I loved how half the story was told from all the different perspectives of the lower class characters in & around the main characters. Their vision of their world & the character & choices of the de Linsseuils & the l’Engoulvent clan was such a fascinating way to view the drama enfolding within the lives of these two families.

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CW // lots—racism (n-word), rape, child abuse, graphic illness & death (tuberculosis)