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The summer after university Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business and strike out on her own In the meantime she will do what she does best offer guidance to those less wise in the ways of the world than herself Happily this summer brings many new faces to Highbury and into the sphere of Emmas not always perfectly felicitous council Harriet Smith a naive teachers assistant at the ESL school run by the hippie-ish Mrs Goddard Frank Churchill the attractive stepson of Emmas former governess and of course the perfect Jane Fairfax This Emma is wise witty and totally enchanting and will appeal equally to Sandys multitude of fans and the enormous community of wildly enthusiastic Austen aficionados-

An unstoppable combination: Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Austen, as Sandy modernizes the story of Emma Woodhouse. Emma Woodhouse's widowed father is an anxious man, obsessed with nutrition and the latest vitamins. He lives the life of a country gentleman in contemporary England, protectively raising his young daughters, Isabella and Emma. While Isabella grows into a young woman, marries a society photographer for Vogue at the age of 19, and gets down to the business of reproducing herself, Emma pursues a degree in interior design at university in Bath and then returns to set up shop in her home village. With her educated eye for the coordination of pattern and color, Emma thinks she can now judge what person would best be paired with another and sets about matchmaking her young friend, Harriet, with various possible suitors. Little does she know she is not the only person encouraging romantic pairings in the village.

An unstoppable combination: Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Austen, as Sandy modernizes the story of Emma Woodhouse. Emma Woodhouse's widowed father is an anxious man, obsessed with nutrition and the latest vitamins. He lives the life of a country gentleman in contemporary England, protectively raising his young daughters, Isabella and Emma. While Isabella grows into a young woman, marries a society photographer for Vogue at the age of 19, and gets down to the business of reproducing herself, Emma pursues a degree in interior design at university in Bath and then returns to set up shop in her home village. With her educated eye for the coordination of pattern and color, Emma thinks she can now judge what person would best be paired with another and sets about matchmaking her young friend, Harriet, with various possible suitors. Little does she know -- she is not the only person encouraging romantic pairings in the village.