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At the outbreak of the Civil War, nineteen-year-old Emily Hudson is dispatched into the care of her distant and cold uncle, to spend the summer at his beach house in Newport. She is an orphan, the sole member of her family not claimed by consumption. Her spirit and vibrancy are at odds with this wealthy yet forbidding family, and also with the stilted climate of American society. It is Emily’s cousin William, himself an outsider, who is her saviour. His friendship offers her the chance to escape to London to pursue her artistic dreams. But his patronage soon turns darker and more controlling, just as Emily begins to notice her own health faltering.
Vivid, poignant and dramatically told in beautiful, tender prose, Emily Hudson is a brilliantly readable novel that will appeal to anybody who has ever sought to be true to themselves―but also to find love.
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MELISSA JONES was born in London, where she now lives. This is her third novel.
An episode in the life of Henry James concerning his relationship with his cousin, Minny Temple, is the inspiration for this engrossing novel. Lorna Raver is Emily Hudson, a high-spirited, independent young woman who longs to be an artist in a period when girls were expected to conform to rigid norms. Raver's girlish enthusiasm contains the flush of youth as Emily manages to scandalize and outrage her severely critical uncle, at the same time captivating her cousin William, an up-and-coming writer. As Emily battles consumption, listeners will feel Raver growing weak and pale along with her. From the intriguing prologue--in which a man is throwing beautiful gowns into the river--to the triumphant conclusion, Lorna Raver turns EMILY HUDSON into a woman worth knowing. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1554685435
- ISBN 13 9781554685431
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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