Beautiful, clever, rich - and single . . . Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, thrills her more than gossip and interfering in the love lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to matchmake her protégée Harriet, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. 'She was wonderfully alive, very fun, a bit naughty' Anne Hathaway on Jane Austen