A heart warming read about a young girl, Fiona, and her family, coping with the premature death of her mother. Fiona has romantic notions of being like Emily Bronte but her life seems to move from one disaster to another as she struggles to grow up playing mother to her younger siblings while desperately needing the mother’s guidance she no longer has. Told in the first person in a Scottish phonetic style it is easy to pick up the accent which adds a certain charm to this sad yet, ultimately, uplifting story.
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Things are never dull in the O’Connell family. Still, Fiona, squeezed between her quiet brother and her mischievous line-dancing twin sisters, thinks life in their tenement flat is far less interesting than Emily Bronte’s.
But tragedy is not confined to Victorian novels. And life for Fiona in this happy domestic setup is about to change forever. Following the devastating events of a single day, her family can never be the same. But perhaps, new relationships will develop – built on a solid foundation of love.
Moving, funny and ultimately heart-warming, Being Emily is a wonderful novel about one young girl trying to find her place in the world amid the turmoil that only your own family can create.
Being Emily features in the following genres: Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Recommendations
Being Emily is available in Paperback, Ebook
Being Emily was written by Anne Donovan and published by Canongate Books Ltd
Being Emily has 297 pages
£8.99
