SOURCE: "Stormy Weather," in Books in Canada, Vol. IXX, No. 3, April, 1990, pp. 31-2.

Keefer is a Canadian poet, short story writer, novelist, and critic. In the review below, she praises the prose style and originality of Changing Heaven, but faults the novel's structure and Urquhart's attempts to "demystify" Emily Brontë.

Like her first novel, The Whirlpool, Jane Urquhart's latest work of fiction plunges us into a world of passions and marvels and intricate obsessions. Changing Heaven opens with a meditation on wind and weather, invoking those tempests of mind and heart without which we cannot achieve our full stature or understand our true nature as human beings. Urquhart's new novel is, in large part, a love affair with another novel, Wuthering Heights, one of the strangest, most powerful texts in the English language. At crucial moments in Changing Heaven, climactic scenes from Emily Brontë's novel are echoed...