Karen Powell – “I feel drawn to Emily Bronte’s untamed spirit”
What drew you to write a novel based on the Brontë sisters and Branwell? Author Karen Powell (Courtesy the subject) Wuthering Heights was the first adult novel I ever read, given to me by my mother from her precious set of Collectors’ Editions that sat on the mantelpiece in our family home. After that, I read Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and then, over the next few years, books by Anne Brontë and Jane Austen. So, long before I ever thought of myself as a writer, the Brontës – and the 19th century novel – were…