Emma Brown

Beautifully written, supenseful and thought provoking.
Gives insight into the position of women in Victorian society and illustrates brutally the appalling circumstances of the lower classes. Dickens couldn't have done better.

A well written, well narrated story. I enjoyed everything about this novel and would recommend it.

What a good job this author has made in her neat and interesting completion of this work. Her style was every bit a Charlotte Bronte yet the subject matter very obviously came from a contemporary author.
Very well narrated and very very enjoyable . Many thanks

Fabulous book, very well read, couldn't put it down. Well done in the style of the Bronte sisters, although the modern author's voice comes through at times, while the storyline was perfect - impossible to guess the ending.

The story is very intriguing and the language used was fascinating. I hoped to find other audible books by this author - but sadly there were none.

I was not expecting this book to be so involving, and to delve into the darker side of Victorian England. It definitely deals with radical themes that Charlotte Bronte would not have explored at the time.

Matilda Fitzgibbon is a plain unattractive child (reminiscent of Jane Eyre) arrives at a small select boarding school with a trunk of sumptuous clothes. However, her fees remain unpaid and (without giving away too much) the child finds herself alone and destitute in London. The relationships in the book do become tangled, (which reminded me of the melodramatic style of Dickens).

The book is written from different points of view, which shows the characters inner despairs and sorrow. My only disappointment is that Clare Boylan has not written another novel.

This story was hard to get into for the first half-hour or so, but I continued listening and now consider "Emma Brown" to be one of the most beautiful books I have listened to in a long time. Perfect pacing, perfect writing, a perfectly satisfying story, and very well performed. It feels like a cross between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, combining the mannerisms of bygone times with the real grittiness of the darker elements of Victorian London.