Miss Emily Audiobook

Quotes

• “Evocative, thought provoking, and beautifully rendered…The language was so delicious and exciting that I forced myself to slow down, just enough to savor each sentence.”

  — Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author

• “An utterly human and believable Emily Dickinson…Their story is smart and witty and harrowing and brilliantly revelatory…in prose that has the same condensed, particularizing power of Dickinson’s poetry.”

  — Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

• “A beautifully imagined account of an unlikely bond.”

  — People

• “O’Connor is a gifted writer; not only does she bring a believable sense of poetry (clay is ‘deathly cool around my fingers’) and self-assurance to Emily, she is also capable of conveying complex feeling succinctly, a talent shared by her historical heroine.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Beautifully and convincingly evokes the startling, luminous world captured in Dickinson’s poems in the alternating voices of Emily and Ada, who share a passionate nature at odds with proper Amherst society.”

  — Library Journal

• “Mesmerizing…Like one of Dickinson’s poems, the deceptively simple narrative packs a powerful punch… The dual perspectives add an Upstairs, Downstairs depth to the novel.”

  — Booklist

• “Narrators Tavia Gilbert and Alana Kerr do an admirable job and are well cast.”

  — AudioFile

• “A superb novel…With gorgeous, compelling period detail and graceful prose, Nuala O’Connor…celebrates her women with great delicacy and exuberance.”

  — Kathleen Grissom, author of The Kitchen House

• “Beautifully written and utterly compelling, this vivid portrait of Emily Dickinson examines her humanity, complexity, and profound relationship with words…[A] highly accomplished novel.”

  — Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of Painted Girls

• “Nuala O’Connor’s beautiful writing sings from every single page as Emily and Ada’s fascinating story unfolds. An absolute joy to read.”

  — Hazel Gaynor, author of The Girl Who Came Home

• “A jewel of a novel…With its luminous prose and sympathetic, realistically drawn characters, you will feel yourself irresistibly drawn into Emily’s and Ada’s private worlds with every turn of the page.”

  — Syrie James, author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen

• “An original portrayal of Emily Dickinson seen here not just as a lover of words but as a heroine and friend to a plucky Irish maid who casts a new and sympathetic light on the Belle of Amherst.”

  — Sheila Kohler, author of Becoming Jane Eyre

• “Miss Emily presents a version of Emily Dickinson for the twenty-first century: an intensely private and reclusive woman who was as determined to live according to her own idiosyncratic rules.”

  — Dr. Paraic Finnerty, member of the board of directors of the Emily Dickinson International Society and author of Emily Dickinson’s Shakespeare