The Semi-Attached Couple
by:
Peter Joyce (author)
Emily Eden (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781860150241 (1860150241)
Publish date: December 10th 2004
Publisher: Assembled Stories
Edition language: English
I thoroughly enjoyed this read, a book I found through Reflections review of the same book. It's very Austen-esque in tone and wit, but the story itself starts where most others leave off: with the wedding and the aftermath: two people who do not know each other at all, trying to be husband and w...
Victorian author Emily Eden admired Jane Austen--and it shows in her astute and witty prose which delighted this Janite--but she begins her book where Jane’s stories end, with a wedding. Lovely Helen has all the ingredients for 19th century happiness. She’s beloved by her large well-off family and s...