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Emma
- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrator
- Georgina Terry
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 6 November 2014
- Run Time
- 10 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Classic plays / drama, Essays, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Autobiography: writers, Literary studies: from c 2000
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What to expect
‘It's comfort reading at its most soothing’ Independent
‘Funny, heartfelt and very readable’ Good Housekeeping
In this reimagined modern classic, prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything…
Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorcycle up to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end, abandoned in the giant family pile, Hartfield, alongside Emma’s anxiety-ridden father. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige.
And there is plenty to delight her in the buzzing little village of Highbury. At the helm of her own dinner parties and instructing her new little protégée, Harriet Smith, Emma reigns forth. But there is only one person who can play with Emma’s indestructible confidence, her old friend and inscrutable neighbour George Knightley – this time has Emma finally met her match?
Critics Review
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Praise for Emma:
‘Entertaining . . . McCall Smith brings such intelligence and wit’ The Daily Mail
‘Funny, heartfelt and very readable’ Good Housekeeping
‘Funny and clever’ Fabulous Magazine
‘Delightful’ Closer
Praise for Alexander McCall Smith:
‘Witty, elegant, gentle, compassionate’
Guardian‘The kind of simplicity one finds in the best children's stories and a fluency which reflects his practice of writing 4,000 words a day in a stint of four hours… A talent for traditional story telling’ Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrator
- Georgina Terry
- Duration
- 10 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 November 2014
- ISBN
- 9780007565016
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Classic plays / drama, Essays, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Autobiography: writers, Literary studies: from c 2000
Synopsis
‘It's comfort reading at its most soothing’ Independent ‘Funny, heartfelt and very readable’ Good Housekeeping In this reimagined modern classic, prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything… Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorcycle up to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end, abandoned in the giant family pile, Hartfield, alongside Emma’s anxiety-ridden father. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige. And there is plenty to delight her in the buzzing little village of Highbury. At the helm of her own dinner parties and instructing her new little protégée, Harriet Smith, Emma reigns forth. But there is only one person who can play with Emma’s indestructible confidence, her old friend and inscrutable neighbour George Knightley – this time has Emma finally met her match?
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