Emma / Alexander McCall Smith.
Series: Austen project. 3 | Austen Project ; 3.Publication details: London : Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.Description: 361 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780007553860 (paperback)
- 0007553862 (paperback)
- Emma : a modern retelling
- 823.914 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | MACC | Austen Bk.3 | Available | 058019 |
The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury, where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business and strike out on her own. In the meantime, she will do what she does best: offer guidance to those less wise in the ways of the world than herself. Happily, this summer brings many new faces to Highbury and into the sphere of Emma's not always perfectly felicitous council: Harriet Smith, a naive teacher's assistant at the ESL school run by the hippie-ish Mrs. Goddard; Frank Churchill, the attractive stepson of Emma's former governess; and, of course, the perfect Jane Fairfax. This Emma is wise, witty, and totally enchanting, and will appeal equally to Sandy's multitude of fans and the enormous community of wildly enthusiastic Austen aficionados.