If you didn’t know Jane Austen wrote a sequel to Emma, that’s because she didn’t. This sequel was written by Rachel Billington. The story opens a year after Emma’s marriage to Mr. Knightley with the couple still living at Hartfield with Mr. Woodhouse
The review for Emma and Knightley by Rachel Billington was originally written 2/2/2009 for Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The full review of Emma and Knightley can now be read at Squid Lit.
Cosmopolitan compared it to Bridget Jones but this book is really about loss. It isn’t about the laughs and it isn’t about finding someone to spend the rest of your life with. I originally reviewed this book for Linear Reflections and reprinted it for Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. Read the full review.
You’ve read the books. You’ve read about the author. But still, you want more. If you travel to England there are three choice places that any Jane Austen fan needs to add to their list of experiences.
Many emotions course through Girls In Trouble: excitement, fear, happiness, love, forgiveness, acceptance, jealousy, and the all powerful anger. With her flowing dialogue and decorative prose, Leavitt draws readers into the life of two families forever connected by one blessed event. Birth. I originally reviewed Girls in Trouble for BellaOnline. Read the full review of…
Book Review Why We Write is a collection of essays from 20 authors*, edited by Meredith Maran. The essays are written by authors who “have written books that sell in the kinds of numbers that make publishers send them flowers and leather-bound first editions. And most importantly, new book contracts.” Maran calls them the successful ones,…
Under the Net was Iris Murdoch’s first novel published in 1954 and is one of Time Magazine’s 100 best novels of all time. Much is made of Murdoch’s philosophy background and how she married it with her fiction writing. And while I do find this present it doesn’t make the story any more or less…
It’s August 2001 in Saratoga Springs, Florida. It’s hot and fifty-nine-year-old Belly O’Leary is being released from prison. He was sentenced six years for illegal gambling in his establishment, The War Bar; but got off early after four years for good behaviour. Lisa Selin Davis’ debut novel gives a peek into the life of Belly…