Emma of 83rd Street

In this witty and romantic debut novel, Jane Austens Emma meets the misadventures of Manhattans modern dating scene as two lifelong friends discover that, in the search for love, you sometimes dont have to look any further than your own backyard. Beautiful, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse has lived twenty-three years in her tight-knit Upper East Side neighborhood with very little to distress or vex herthat is, until her budding matchmaking hobby results in her sisters marriageand subsequent move downtown. Now, with her sister gone and all her friends traveling abroad, Emma must start her final year of grad school grappling with an entirely new emotion: boredom. So when she meets Nadine, a wide-eyed Ohio transplant with a heart of gold and drugstore blonde highlights to match, Emma not only sees a potential new friend but a new project. If only her overbearing neighbor George Knightley would get out of her way. Handsome, smart, and successful, the only thing that frustrates Knightley more than a corked whiskey is his childhood friend, Emma. Whether its her shopping sprees between classes or her revolving door of ill-conceived hobbies, he is only too happy to lecture her on all the finer points of adulthood shes so hell-bent on ignoring. But despite his gripesand much to his own chagrinKnightley cant help but notice that the girl next door is a woman nowone who he suddenly cant get out of his head. As Emmas best laid plans collide with everyone from hipster baristas to meddling family members to flaky playboy millionaires, these two friends slowly realize their need to always be right has been usurped by a new need entirely, and its not long before they discover that even the most familiar stories still have some surprises.