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Emma

Alexander McCall Smith

2014361 pagesabout 6–8 hours
2014
first published
  • 2014HarperCollins Publishers Limited · ENGISBN 9780007553877
  • 2014Alfred A. Knopf Canada · 361 pages · ENGISBN 9780345809063
  • 2014HarperHQ · 464 pages · ENGISBN 9780007553860
  • 2015Pantheon Books · 361 pages · ENGISBN 9780804197953
  • 2015The Borough Press · 361 pages · ENGISBN 9780007553884
  • 2015Random House Large Print · 437 pages · ENGISBN 9780804194709
  • 2016Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9780804172417
  • 2014The Borough PressISBN 9780007553853

"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"--

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