Emma by Alexander McCall Smith

Emma by Alexander McCall Smith is a 361-page hardcover published in 2014 by Pantheon Books, New York.  Stated First United Stated Edition.  The condition is very good.  Some light wear to the dust jacket. Book Summary The best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series deftly re-imagines Jane Austen's beloved, meddlesome heroine into the twenty-first century in this delightfully inventive retelling. The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse return home to the village of Highbury to prepare for the launch of her interior design business.  As she cultivates grand plans for the future, she re-enters the household of the hypochondriac father, who has been living alone on a steady diet of vegetables and vitamin supplements.  Soon, Emma befriends Harriet Smith, the naive but charming young teacher;'s assistant at an English-language school run by the hippiesh Mrs. Goddard.  Harriet is Emma's inspiration to do the two things she does best:  offer guidance to those less wis