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Beloved and best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to EMMA, the next book in The Austen Project. 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.

As she gets her fledging design business off the ground, 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 protegee, 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 Knightly - this time has Emma finally met her match?

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 a young woman who knows everything, Emma has a lot to learn about herself.

Ever alive to the uproarious nuances of human behaviour, and both the pleasures and pitfalls of village life, beloved author Alexander McCall Smith's Emma is the busybody we all know and love, and a true modern delight.

Not his best, but still worth a read.

This is on its way to the winner of the 1st Name Sweeps, I saw this on your wishlist, hope you enjoy it :-)

This book arrived today. I’ve read some books by this author before, so I’m curious to see how this one goes! Thanks for sending!

It feels like this book has been on my bedside table forever (even though it hasn’t been with me for that long). I picked it up a while ago and Liked the first 50 or 100 pages, thinking it had an entertaining and funny style with a story about a slightly excentric family and their quirky nanny. But after I got halfway through, it got a bit boring. Not much happens and the quirkiness wears off, leaving the book kind of empty and shallow. The book is supposedly a modern version of Jane Austen’s Emma (part of the Austen’s project), but since I haven’t read the original, I can’t really comment on the quality of the re-telling.

There were only 50 pages left when I left on holidays and didn’t take this book with me. When I returned, I just couldn’t really be bothered to pick this book up again. Maybe also because two bookray books arrived while I was away and I felt I should read these first. So maybe it’s not entirely the book’s fault that it remains unfinished, there is also some bad timing involved.

I left it on my bedside table for another week. But now decided I will send it as a wishlist book to the decoy of the first name sweeps. I know the decoy is only supposed to recieve one book from the winner, but some rules are meant to be broken ;) especially when it comes to wishlist books!

*reserved for the decoy of the 1st name sweeps*

Going to the decoy of the 1st name sweeps!

Thank you for this surprise-book ! The cover appealed to me the I saw it in passing so I added it to my whishlist. I'm a big fan of Alexander McCall Smith in the Scotland Street and Mama Ramove series. Not so much in others.
I didn't know the link with Jane Austen’s Emma and wasn't aware of the project but I'm not English either.
Thank you too for the fabulous stamps, very appreciated, and the mark-page, I love particulary the Bookshop ones.

Not a bad thing to stop and reconsider yourself.
Now I have to read Emma by Jane Austen.
I liked the witty touch of Alexander McCall Smith in this book.

In a box with other BC books en route to the South of France.
Enjoy !