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Wuthering Heights II; Beautiful, windswept and lonely, the house that captured Kate Bush's heart.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20050912
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Byline: JAMES MILLS

EVER since the hit single Wuthering Heights launched her career, Kate Bush has been obsessed by the Emily Bronte novel which inspired it.

At one time she even registered her name on the electoral roll as Catherine Earnshaw, Bronte's tormented heroine.

And now she has spent [pounds sterling]2.5million on a Wuthering Heights of her own.

Although the house is in Devon, rather than the West Yorkshire moors of the book, its setting is equally windswept and romantic.

And it will provide the seclusion which 47-year-old Miss Bush has craved ever ...

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