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Emma of 83rd Street

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by Audrey Bellezza
Emily Harding
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In this witty and romantic debut novel, Jane Austen's Emma meets the misadventures of Manhattan's modern dating scene as two lifelong friends discover that, in the search for love, you sometimes don't have to look any further than your own backyard.
Beautiful, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse has lived twenty-three years in her tight-knit Upper East Side neighborhood with very little to distress or vex her...that is, until her budding matchmaking hobby results in her sister's marriage—and subsequent move downtown. Now, with her sister gone and all her friends traveling abroad, Emma must start her final year of grad school grappling with an entirely new emotion: boredom. So when she meets Nadine, a wide-eyed Ohio transplant with a heart of gold and drugstore blonde highlights to match, Emma not only sees a potential new friend but a new project. If only her overbearing neighbor George Knightley would get out of her way.

Handsome, smart, and successful, the only thing that frustrates Knightley more than a corked whiskey is his childhood friend, Emma. Whether it's her shopping sprees between classes or her revolving door of ill-conceived hobbies, he is only too happy to lecture her on all the finer points of adulthood she's so hell-bent on ignoring. But despite his gripes—and much to his own chagrin—Knightley can't help but notice that the girl next door is a woman now...one who he suddenly can't get out of his head.

As Emma's best laid plans collide with everyone from hipster baristas to meddling family members to flaky playboy millionaires, these two friends slowly realize their need to always be right has been usurped by a new need entirely, and it's not long before they discover that even the most familiar stories still have some surprises.

  • Creators

  • Series

    For the Love of Austen

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 23, 2023

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9781668008409

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781668008409
      • File size: 4525 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 13, 2023
      Author team Bellezza and Harding put a contemporary rom-com spin on Jane Austen’s Emma in their charming debut. In their reimagining, beautiful and wealthy 23-year-old grad student Emma Woodhouse’s world revolves around New York’s Upper East Side. She struggles between claiming independence and her family’s approval when faced with the growing pains of adulting. With her collegiate girlfriends living their lives abroad, and her sister marrying and moving away, Emma copes with feelings of abandonment by playing matchmaker for her new friend and classmate, Nadine Pittman—a project that inevitably goes awry. Meanwhile Emma realizes her own feelings for strikingly handsome George Knightley, her childhood friend and neighbor, who recognizes an attraction to her as well. But miscommunication, misconceptions, and misunderstandings threaten both their lifelong friendship and their chance at a relationship. The authors bring plenty of wit to this classic friends-to-lovers tale. Readers will fall in love with Emma Woodhouse all over again. Agent: Joelle Delbourgo, Joelle Delbourgo Assoc.

    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2023

      DEBUT Emma Woodhouse and George Knightley have been friends since childhood--their tony Upper East Side homes neighboring each other. Now they're both grown up, with Emma starting grad school at NYU, and George freshly returned from LA to work for a private-equity firm in New York City. As they navigate their exclusive social circle full of glam parties, marriages, pregnancies, friendships new and old, breakups, and dates gone wrong, they get to spend plenty of time together and find that it's increasingly difficult to deny their growing feelings for each other. They hesitate to take it further, fearing losing their friendship if their relationship ends badly, but they'll have to trust their instincts and their chemistry to claim their chance at true love. Bellezza and Harding have created a glamorous romp that is heartfelt, steamy, and romantic. VERDICT This modern retelling of Jane Austen's Emma takes readers from Regency England to present-day high-society Manhattan, but the relationship foibles and romantic misunderstanding remain intact. For fans of the movie Clueless and retellings of classics.--Migdalia Jimenez

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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