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Emma & Knightley: Perfect Happiness in Highbury: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Emma

5 reviews
Rachel Billington

Sourcebooks Landmark, 2008

Working Toward Happiness
When Emma and Knightley marry at the end of Jane Austen's Emma (Penguin Classics), Emma is a very young 21 or 22 years old. While she has been mistress of her father's house for a number of years, she has never had to balance her role as a daughter caring for her (hypochondriac) father with her new role as Mr. Knightley's wife. I for one always wondered how their relationship continued to develop ...

Lies and Loyalties

1 review
Rachel Billington

Orion, 2008

Family secrets
When British MP, Leo Barr is informed of the death of his younger brother, Charley, he rushes to the mental hospital where Charley was a patient, to be told that he had hanged himself from a tree in the garden of the hospital grounds. Upon viewing the body, he is relieved to see that it definitely not Charley, but that Charley is missing and wanted for questioning by the police. Poor brilliant ...

Billington The Garish Day
Rachel Billington

Morrow, 1985

First US edition

Perfect Happiness

4 reviews
Rachel Billington

Hodder & Stoughton, 1999

Perfect... Happiness
What an amazing sequel! I love it when someone comes out with a sequel to a classic. I feel there is never a really good ending to the classics and when an author is able to tie all the loose ends up, I'm happy. If you like Emma you might not like Perfect Happiness, but if you want an ending this one is great!

Beautiful
Rachel Billington

Penguin Books Ltd, 1977

Beautiful/All Things Nice
Rachel Billington

Pan Books, 1994

Chapters Of Gold: The Life Of Mary In Mosaics
Rachel Billington, Gered Mankowitz

Burns & Oates, 2005

Chapters of Gold is a book of meditations on the life of Our Lady for modern busy people today. The short chapters are based on an episode in the life of Our Lady, the Annunciation, The Birth of Christ, the Finding of Christ in the Temple right through to the witness to the Resurrection of Christ. The chapters consist of a short narrative and meditation and are each illustrated with beautiful four colour plates based on the mosaics from the Lady ...

The Family Year
Rachel Billington

Macmillan, 1992

This is a collection of Rachel Billington's "Sunday Telegraph" pieces. This portrait of modern urban family life is arranged in diary form beginning with September. The author tackles non-communicating little boys, a tea party at granny's, how to choose a godmother, poetry in the countryside and the importance of the perfect hair style and many other subjects.