Emily Hudson, Melissa Jones
Emily Hudson, Melissa Jones
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Emily Hudson
A Novel

Author: Melissa Jones

Narrator: Lorna Raver

Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/02/2010


Synopsis

After the start of the Civil War, Emily Hudson—an orphan who lost her family to consumption and fever—finds herself the begrudged guest at the home of her relatives in Newport. Emily's longing to be an artist is dismissed by her puritanical uncle, who wants nothing more than to rid himself of her through marriage. Her only friend is her aesthete cousin, William, an ailing young writer. When a promising engagement to the eligible Captain Lindsay is broken, William rescues Emily from an uncertain future by taking her to England. Lonely and desperate to escape her cousin—once her confidant, now her obsessively controlling patron—Emily sets out alone to meet her destiny in the eternal city of Rome.

Reminiscent of the novels of Edith Wharton, Emily Hudson is an exquisitely told tale about a heroine struggling to be true to herself and to also find love in a society where only marriage or an independent income guaranteed a woman the freedom to do as she pleased.

About Melissa Jones

Melissa Jones is the daughter of the Jamaican poet and screenwriter Evan Jones and the sister of novelist Sadie Jones. The author of Cold in Earth and Sick at Heart, she lives in an Essex village in England with her husband and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lynne on July 10, 2018

This has to be the most beautiful and exquisite book that I have read since “Stoner” by John Williams in 2015. I always know when a book is good as I cannot put it down and having read it over a two day period, my sleeping time was rather short. Sheer escapism you may wonder? Yes perhaps. What is in......more

Goodreads review by Tara on August 27, 2010

This is one of those books that had I been able to Look Inside! over on Amazon, I would have known immediately that it is not for me.. I've heard stories like this referred to as Jane Austen style. I have never read Jane Austen or if I did, it was so long ago I don't remember. The prose made me thin......more