Emma

Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to the Austen classic, Emma. ‘Comfort reading at its most soothing’ Independent Prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorbike to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end watching as Mr. Woodhouse worries about his girls. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige. At the helm of her own dinner parties, and often found either rearranging the furniture at the family home of Hartfield, or instructing her new protegee, Harriet Smith, Emma is in charge. You don’t have to be in London to go to parties, find amusement or make trouble. Not if you’re Emma, the very big fish in the rather small pond. But for someone who knows everything, Emma doesn’t know her own heart. And there is only one person who can play with Emma’s indestructible confidence, her friend and inscrutable neighbour George Knightly – this time has Emma finally met her match?Ever alive to the social comedy of village life, beloved author Alexander McCall Smith’s Emma is the busybody we all know and love, and a true modern delight.

Reviews of Emma

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 'The gentle social comedy at which McCall Smith excels' The Times 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