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Georgina Terry
About this listen
‘It's comfort reading at its most soothing’ Independent
‘Funny, heartfelt and very readable’ Good Housekeeping
In this reimagined modern classic, 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.
And 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 protégée, 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 Knightley – this time has Emma finally met her match?
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Critic reviews
‘Entertaining . . . McCall Smith brings such intelligence and wit’ The Daily Mail
‘Funny, heartfelt and very readable’ Good Housekeeping
‘Funny and clever’ Fabulous Magazine
‘Delightful’ Closer
Praise for Alexander McCall Smith:
‘Witty, elegant, gentle, compassionate’
Guardian
‘The kind of simplicity one finds in the best children's stories and a fluency which reflects his practice of writing 4,000 words a day in a stint of four hours… A talent for traditional story telling’ Guardian
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- Janice B. Houghton
- 24-12-23
Not one of his best!
I did not think this book needed to be written as the original by Jane Austen was as good as it could get. Parts of the story seemed to be rushed and I do not think the modernising worked in many of the characters. Mr Woodhouse was a very inconsistent character and did not really fit into the rest of the book. George Knightly was a bit wet and why did Frank Churchill need to trick Emma into believing he was gay? This book was a travesty really!
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- Anonymous User
- 06-08-17
Amazing
It was a great book but the reading was quite slow but overall I really enjoyed it q
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- Poppy
- 03-11-23
Disappointed
Sadly, it was spoilt by poor narration, slow, laborious and with some strange phonic errors.
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- Mrs O
- 16-10-15
Loved it!
An excellent Austen adaptation keeping her wit, cutting tongue and insight in a new modern setting.
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- CC
- 13-02-17
I couldn't really see the point of this book
Would you try another book written by Alexander McCall Smith or narrated by Georgina Terry?
Yes
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I love Jane Austen and generally enjoy Alexander McCall Smith's books and so I thought this would be an enjoyable book. But I found it disappointing. At first I wasn't sure I could be bothered to listen to the end, but I did. There is so much about Jane Austen's world that doesn't translate easily into our world (for instance governesses, people who don't need to earn their living) and so it felt contrived and I was only able to feel sympathy for the characters because I knew them from the original book. McCall Smith often seems to over-explain what people are thinking, which made me appreciate all the more how subtle and understated Jane Austen's writing is.
The reading was generally good, except for mispronounciations of quite a few words; I am surprised that this wasn't picked up by an editor.
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- Christine lee
- 10-04-20
Emma by Alexander McColl Smih
Wonderful reworking of Jane Austen's book by a worthy successor to Jane Austen, the urbane and witty Alexander McColl Smith gives a new perspective on a marvelous character named Emma Woodhouse, Dr McColl Smith spares Emma v llittle on her way to enlightenment. The retelling had me in tears at the end. The writer had studied his subject. HIs writing is quite
superb. Jane Austen would not object.
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- thpt
- 29-02-20
A wonderful ‘take’
A fascinating and engaging version of the story (saw latest film at same time). Slightly spoiled by the narrator’s, at times, rather odd pronunciation but her voice was delightfully ‘Emma-like’.
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- Nicola
- 30-03-21
Average
Witty but not a patch on the original. Emma just too horrible to like and I wasn't keen on the narrator.
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- MADMUVVA
- 19-01-22
Not worth the effort
Not an homage to Austen. Except for the names & a nodding acquaintance with ‘Emma’ it bears little similarity to the original story. It’s more like Scotland Street in middle England.
Although the narrator has adopted the right cut glass middle class accent, she has a problem with pronunciation of unfamiliar words.
Overall I wasted a credit!
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- Joanne
- 26-08-17
Ridiculous
An impossible task really - vaguely amusing at best - but why do it in the first place?
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