Emma Watson

Emma Watson
Joan Aiken, Jane Austen
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Paperback
h197 x 130mm - 272pg
1 Sep 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529093032
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Emma Watson has been brought up by her aunt in a wealthy and refined household, an educated lifestyle far removed from her widowed father and five siblings. So when her aunt enters into an imprudent second marriage, nineteen-year-old Emma is sent back home and must join her sisters in their pursuit of a husband . . . Aiken takes on the fate of Austen' s characters with confidence and skill, flawlessly entwining themes of loss and love together in this stunning regency pastiche. ' Joan Aiken' s invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to delight for many years to come' - Philip Pullman
Joan Aiken' s invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to delight for many years to come -- Philip Pullman Aiken displays a lively turn of invention, not to mention assiduous research into her period . . . undoubtedly entertaining, a pretty, lively, amusing little pastiche -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph * Her sense of time and place is impeccable. Others may try but nobody comes close to Aiken in writing Jane Austen sequels * Publishers Weekly * Aiken forces us to see what Austen made her own heroines see: themselves from another perspective -- Lizzie Skurnick * New York Times Book Review * Shows a confident hand in reworking the various plots and philosophies for which Jane Austen is so admired -- Sarah Francis * Times Literary Supplement *
Joan Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex, in 1924, daughter of the American poet Conrad Aiken, and started writing herself at the age of five. From the 1960s she wrote full-time and published over a hundred books. Best known for her children' s books such as The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Midnight is a Place, she also wrote extensively for adults and published many contemporary and historical novels, including sequels to novels by Jane Austen. In 1968 she won the Guardian Children' s book prize for Whispering Mountain, followed by an Edgar Allan Poe award for Night Fall in 1972, and she was awarded an MBE for her services to children' s literature in 1999. Joan Aiken died in 2004.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529093032
Published: 1 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pan Books
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 272

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