‘It's comfort reading at its most soothing’ Independent‘Funny, heartfelt and very readable’ Good Housekeeping‘It's comfort reading at its most soothing’ Independent‘Funny, heartfelt and very readable’ Good HousekeepingIn 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?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’ CloserPraise 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’ GuardianLike Mr Woodhouse, Alexander McCall Smith is the father of two daughters. Unlike Mr Woodhouse, he achieved global recognition in 1999 for his award-winning series The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, and he now devotes his time to the writing of fiction, including the 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie series. He is the author of over eighty books on a wide array of subjects, and his work has been translated into forty-six languages. Before becoming a full-time writer he was for many years Professor of Medical Law at Edinburgh University and served on national and international bioethics bodies. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife Elizabeth, a doctor.• Alexander McCall Smith has legions of fans from his bestselling No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series, which sold well over 1 million copies in its first volume and so far has sold sold over twenty million copies as a series. Due in part to McCall Smith’s incredible creation of a female detective with gumption and know-how, in the form of Precious Ramotswe.• Alexander McCall Smith is the author of fifty titles in all, including the Isabel Dalhousie series and his novels have been adapted to television.• Alexander McCall Smith’s reinvention of EMMA will see the marriage of his distinctive heartwarming voice and ease with themes of social privilege and gossip with Jane Austen’s most critically acclaimed novel, EMMA.Competition: Sense and Sensibility;Project Darcy;Northanger Abbey;Emma;Austen Project;Persuasion;Mansfield Park;Pride and Prejudice;Circe;Eligible. by Jane Austen;Emily;Charlotte;Anne Bronte;Curtis Sittenfeld;Marian Keyes;Agatha Christie;Ottessa Mosfegh;Beth O’Leary;Jojo Moyes;George Eliot;Elena Ferrante
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