The Importance of Being Emma

Juliet Archer

Nov 2011 · Choc Lit

About this ebook

An “ingenious” twist on the classic Emma with characters “Jane Austen herself would have loved” (Joanna Trollope).
 
True, Emma Woodhouse crushed on her ridiculously sexy brother-in-law, Mark Knightley, when she was a clueless schoolgirl. But with an MBA from Harvard and a burgeoning career as marketing director for the family food business in Highbury, she’s become a self-assured young woman—totally immune to the Knightley charms. Besides, the man of Emma’s new dreams is television chef Flynn Churchill.
 
When Mark is hired as Emma’s new company advisor and mentor, he likes the idea of getting closer to the girl he once dismissed as a “little sister.” Especially now that she grown into a woman so irresistible—not to mention obstinate, exasperating, resistant to his advice, and totally impervious when it comes to the rules of attraction and desire. Emma only thinks her heart is set on Churchill. Now it’s up to Mark to reset.
 
“Juliet Archer has reinvented [Emma] for a 21st-century audience . . . with breathtaking charm and verve.” —Jane Austen Regency World Magazine
 
“Perfect for reading on a hot, lazy afternoon. Like a single piece of good chocolate, it’s a sweet treat that you won’t regret later.” —Austenblog

About the author

Juliet Archer describes herself as “a 19th-century mind in a 21st-century body—actually, some days it’s the other way round.” The youngest of four girls, she was born and bred in North-East England, where she met her future husband. Unlike Anne Elliot in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, she got married despite pressure to wait until she’d finished her degree, and emerged from the University of Nottingham with a first in French and Russian. Thirty years later, she is still married and lives in Hertfordshire. Juliet’s first novel in the series, The Importance of Being Emma, won the 2011 Big Red Reads Fiction Award and was short-listed for the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance. Joanna Trollope stated it was: “An ingenious and often effective, very affectionate tribute to a great predecessor with some witty contemporary versions of characters that I think Jane Austen herself would have loved.”