The Importance Of Being Emma (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
Basically, this is Jane Austen's Emma for contemporary readers. You could get all uptight about the lack of Ms Austen's particular turn of phrase or be shocked at the lack of originality in the plot. Alternatively, you could just recognise that people have been rewriting Shakespeare for centuries with never a murmur and just enjoy it for what it is - a convincing plot, a happy ever after and a good deal of light hearted characterisation. In some ways I've grown to love Austen more for reading this. Great stuff. This book is Jane Austen's Emma, but in modern-day England. It follows the plot of the original almost beat for beat - which made me want to reread Emma itself, and wonder why there was a need for this book, if it doesn't have anything new to offer to the story. But, I think the reason for it is that this is not a PG version of Emma, it is people's fantasies when they read the original spelled out on the page. One thing I didn't like was that it kept going back and forth between Emma's point of view and Mark's point of view, I felt like it gave too much away always knowing what both main characters were thinking. One thing I liked about the book were the food-related chapter titles, like - Gooseberry Fool, Pure Honey and Digestif - which were often applicable to the chapter contents.
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