Educating Emily

By Mona Prevel

Book Overview

He taught her the ways of the world, and she taught him the ways of love.

Fated to be sold into a loveless marriage, Emily Walsingham runs away. But when she is rescued by dashing James Garwood, she fall desperately in love. Recognized by James's mother, Emily is declared the perfect wife for him, despite the fact that he has yet to declare his love for her.

When James Garwood agrees to marry Emily, he never expected to be any more than a tolerable companion. But as she proves to be more caring and intelligent than he imagined, a man thought to be incapable of true devotion will learn more than he bargained for about falling in love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626816786
• ISBN13: 9781626816787
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Diversion Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Style, flair, and wit!

With EDUCATING EMILY, Ms. Prevel provides a lovely, satisfying read with twists and turns that more than once brought on a case of the "oohs and ah-ahs!" Written with style, flair, and wit, this book is destined to be the first of many triumphs for Ms. Prevel.

A book is a book is a book?

The problem with this book isn't the fault of the author or the book itself. Rather, it is the insistence of the publishing industry that each book must fall into a perceived category. If it doesn't--oh, well, too bad! Once upon a time, a book was a book. If it was really fiction, costumed or otherwise, it could be fiction. It didn't have to pretend to be something other than what it was. These days, however, if a book is...

a very satisfying read

I enjoyed reading this novel immensely: not only did it possess a rather touching love story, with a very sweet young heroine and a rather dashing hero; but it also touched on certain social issues of the time, such as the treatment of women, and that of the poor and disppossessed. Mona Prevel handled the subject matters in an intelligent and compassionate manner that reminded me very much of the great female authouresses...