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, Flannery knows something is wrong.
When the police are called, Flannery surrenders everything except for Miss Sweeney’s precious dog-eared, annotated copy of Wuthering Heights. When she opens it later, it has 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, the diary 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 Brontë’s novel …