A delicious summer read, HARRIET is an intriguing and original “take” on Austen’s immortal EMMA, by Publishers Weekly’s 2021 BookLife Quarterfinalist Alice McVeigh.
Winner of the Gold Medal in the Global Book Awards and selected by Publishers Weekly as Editors Pick (“outstanding”) HARRIET is the plot of EMMA narrated by Harriet and the gifted Jane Fairfax instead – an EMMA with an unexpected twist in its tail.
(“McVeigh’s prose and plotting are pitch-perfect” – Publishers Weekly)
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About the Author
Alice (Spaulding Taylor) McVeigh is a London-based ghostwriter. Her first two contemporary novels were published by Orion/Hachette; her third, Last Star Standing, published by Unbound, was a Kirkus-starred speculative thriller, a runner-up in the Independent Press Awards and a finalist in the Cygnus and Wishing Shelf Book Awards.
McVeigh's Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel was a BookLife 2021 quarterfinalist, rated 10/10 in Publishers Weekly ("This Jane Austen-inspired novel echoes the master herself.") It won an IndieBRAG medallion, along with the Gold Medal (historical)in the Pencraft, eLit and Global book awards. Shelf Unbound magazine selected it as one of 100 "Notable Indies" of 2021 (included non-fiction). It is currently shortlisted for several other prizes.
McVeigh’s newest novel (Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation) was published on Feb. 3, 2022. Just as Susan imagined a youthful Lady Susan, Harriet imagines a Harriet Smith clever enough to appear stupid and malleable to the great Emma Woodhouse. On March 28th, Harriet was chosen as a starred "Editors Pick: outstanding” on Publishers Weekly. The 2022 historical winner in the Global Book Awards, Harriet was also a finalist in the International Book Awards.
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