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ABOUT THE BOOK
Eighteen-year-old Ada Concannon has just been hired by the respected but eccentric Dickinson family of Amherst, Massachusetts. Despite their difference in age and the upstairs-downstairs divide, Ada strikes up a deep friendship with Miss Emily, the gifted elder daughter living a spinster’s life at home. But Emily’s passion for words will dominate her life: she will wear only white and avoids the world outside the Dickinson homestead. When Ada’s safety and reputation are threatened, however, Emily must face down her demons to help her friend, with shocking consequences. Emily and Ada are mistress and servant. This novel asks whether either of them can escape the power of the circumstances they were born into. |
Thanks to Penguin, I have a fun giveaway for you today. Fans of historical fiction will enjoy Miss Emily by Irish writer Nuala O’Connor, which imagines a complicated, compelling friendship between Emily Dickinson and her (fictional) young Irish maid, Ada Concannon.
Pick up your copy of Miss Emily on Tuesday, July 14th!