Emma in Love: Jane Austen's Emma Continued

In writing Pemberley, the sequel to Pride and Prejudice, Emma Tennant created a new literary genre: the classic progression. Now she brings us the sequel to Emma, which finds Jane Austen's spirited heroine in the fourth year of her marriage to Mr. Knightley. Although there is harmony between them, Emma is frankly bored. Mr. Knightley is affectionate; but he is, in reality, an old friend, who has, in his own words, "lectured and blamed" the much younger Emma all her life. Knightley is no Mr. Darcy. To amuse herself, Emma decides to take up matchmaking again. But this time, she is playing for dangerously high stakes. Emma Tennant is the author of the acclaimed novels Wild Nights, Woman Beware Woman, and Black Marina. Her sequels include Pemberley, Tess, An Unequal Marriage, and Elinor and Marianne.