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Clare Boylan - Emma Brown - 9780349116723 - KTG0004422
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Emma Brown

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Description for Emma Brown Paperback. An enthralling Victorian novel of mystery, atmosphere and page-turning suspense - more than a mere impersonation of Charlotte Bronte, Clare Boylan is living in her mind, and the result is delicious, beautifully written and quite superlative. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 326. Good copy with some wear to the cover.

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 and eager for new pupils, particularly ones so finely dressed, and boasting a father who is 'quite the gentleman'. But as ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349116723
SKU
KTG0004422
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About 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.

Reviews for Emma Brown
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 ... Read more

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