Description
| Product ID: | 9780007553884 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Emma |
| Authors: | Author: Alexander McCall Smith |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Norfolk, London, Greater London |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating ‘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? |
| Imprint Name: | The Borough Press |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-06-04 |