Dear Reader

A fabulous, sharply funny and heartbreaking love letter to Wuthering Heights and books, Dear Reader is about finding your people – on the page and in the world.

And in this case those are the people who love reading, words and books. This book will make every fan of Wuthering Heights scamper back to curl up with their old copies, inspire anyone who has wondered what all the fuss to read it, and everyone else start humming Kate Bush doing Heathcliff – or just thinking about Heathcliff ...

Set over the course of one day, Dear Reader is the story of an English literature teacher who abruptly disappears and the student who follows in search of her, using a well-thumbed and marked Wuthering Heights as her guide. When her favourite teacher disappears, Flannery knows something is wrong. She finds Miss Sweeney’s copy of Wuthering Heights, which transforms into a sort of roadmap, and so she does something very un-Flannery-like: she skips school and sets out for Manhattan, with the book as her guide. There, she meets a tall handsome boy called Heath who seems to have stepped from the pages of Bronte’s novel.

With delicious wit and heart, Mary O’Connell has crafted a love letter to reading, to the books that make us who we are, and to the teachers who help us discover them.

`The most intelligent, captivating, and exquisitely written book of this year or any year.’ – Wendy Lawless, New York Times bestselling author of Chanel Bonfire.

“Weird and wonderful ... a story for anyone who believes in the power of books to help you figure out your life and remind you to go out and live it - Book RiotI loved DEAR READER - the wild romance of it, the joy in the language, and the celebration of the imagination that the whole book is. It's like a book dipped in love, and I can't think of another quite like it - Alison Umminger, author of American GirlsCaptivating, intelligent, and exquisitely written. - Wendy Lawless, New York Times bestselling author of Chanel BonfireImaginative, fresh, and sometimes wickedly funny, and a book with real compassion at its core. I loved everything about it. - Laura Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of The Chaperone”

Weird and wonderful ... a story for anyone who believes in the power of books to help you figure out your life and remind you to go out and live it - Book Riot

I loved DEAR READER - the wild romance of it, the joy in the language, and the celebration of the imagination that the whole book is. It's like a book dipped in love, and I can't think of another quite like it - Alison Umminger, author of American Girls

Captivating, intelligent, and exquisitely written. - Wendy Lawless, New York Times bestselling author of Chanel Bonfire

Imaginative, fresh, and sometimes wickedly funny, and a book with real compassion at its core. I loved everything about it. - Laura Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of The Chaperone

Mary O'Connell is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the author of the short story collection, Living with Saints and the novel, The Sharp Time. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in literary magazines, and she is the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship and Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She lives in Kansas.

For Flannery Fields, the only respite from the mean girls at school is Miss Sweeney's English class. But when Miss Sweeney doesn't show up to teach her favourite book, Wuthering Heights, and her handbag is found, Flannery knows something is wrong.When the police are called, Flannery surrenders everything except for Miss Sweeney's precious copy of Wuthering Heights. When she opens it later, it appears to have transformed into her teacher's real-time diary. It appears Miss Sweeney is in New York City - and she's in trouble.So Flannery does something very unFlannery-like: she skips school and sets out for Manhattan, with the book as her guide. There she meets Heath, British, handsome and incredibly smart - yet he's never heard of Albert Einstein or Anne Frank. He could almost have stepped from the pages of Bronte's novel ...With inimitable wit and heart, Mary O'Connell has crafted an irresistible love letter to reading and to the books that make us who we are.

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