Summary
When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855, she left behind the beginnings of a new novel - twenty pages of a work in progress called Emma. Now, almost 150 years later, Clare Boylan has returned to this most intriguing of fragments, and turned them into an astonishing story of mystery, atmosphere and page-turning suspense.
When Conway Fitzgibbon arrives at Fuchsia Lodge with his daughter Matilda, the headmistress Miss Wilcox couldn’t be more delighted. The ladies’ school is limited in numbers a…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349116723 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349116725 |
| Author: | Clare Boylan |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 171mm x 31mm |
You Can Find This Book In
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Clare Boylan’s expansion of Bronte’s scrap of plot into Emma Brown is powerfully imagined and stylish, with enough melodramatic twists to keep the momentum going until the end. She is distinctly successful in recreating faithfully an idiom both familiar yet obsolete. Charlotte Bronte left a fragment of a novel at her death, subsequently published under the title Emma, concerning the placement by a rich father of a haughty and unresponsive daughter at a school for young ladies. As with Jane Austen’s Sanditon or Dicken s’ Edwin Drood it has offered later writers the challenge of guessing a dead author’s intentions. - Paradoxically, one of the opportunities that such an enterprise offers is the possibility of subverting the apparent direction of a plot-line, or unde
There is much of Dickens, and perhaps even more of Wilkie Collins, in the plotting, which survives a tendency to the schematic or mechanical to deliver a story that ranges widely through 19th-century England and society. This is a remarkable achievement i - Robin Davidson, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEWhugely daring…this is living in the mind of another writer…delicious, beautifully written, quite superlative. - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYAbout The Author
Clare Boylan
Clare Boylan was a highly acclaimed novelist and short story writer whose work also regularly appeared in the GUARDIAN etc. She died in May 2006.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.