Mar 2011
Kathleen Kent: praise for John Emmett
31/03/11 15:55
A very generous quote from Kathleen Kent, author of The Heretic’s Daughter and The Traitor’s Wife, for the USA edition of John Emmett. She writes:
"A complex and gripping novel of post World War I England still devastated by violence and loss, Elizabeth Speller's The Return of Captain John Emmett recreates a by-gone era of great innocence and incomprehensible depravity through her richly imagined narrative and characters."
Emmett in America...
30/03/11 14:47
The Return of Captain John Emmett will shortly be published in the USA by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. If you live in the USA, you can order your copy by clicking on Capt. Emmett's splendid and elegant new cover:
John Emmett shortlisted for Waverton Prize
21/03/11 14:01
The Return of Captain John Emmett has been shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award 2011. This is a prestigious prize for the best début novel published in the last twelve months, so just to be shortlisted is a great honour.
