It has been ages since I completed this meme, so when I saw that the starting book for this month was Wuthering Heights, I jumped at the chance (find out more about the meme at Books Are My Favourite and Best).

Wuthering Heights is set on the wild moorlands of West Yorkshire, England, and another beautiful novel I highly enjoyed and whose locale is also one very rural area is The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas. The plot takes place in southern Norway and concerns Mattis, a mentally disabled man living with his sister Hege. When Jorgen, a lumberjack, becomes Hege’s prospective suitor, the situation becomes uncomfortable for sensitive Mattis, though he soon has compensation – he set his eyes on becoming a lake ferryman. This is an astonishingly good Norwegian classic.

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