About Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation by Alice McVeigh:
A delicious summer read, HARRIET is an intriguing and original “take” on Austen’s immortal EMMA, by Publishers Weekly’s 2021 BookLife Quarterfinalist Alice McVeigh. Winner of the Gold Medal in the Global Book Awards and selected by Publishers Weekly as Editors Pick (“outstanding”) HARRIET is the plot of EMMA narrated by Harriet and the gifted Jane Fairfax instead – an EMMA with an unexpected twist in its tail. (“McVeigh’s prose and plotting are pitch-perfect” – Publishers Weekly)
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Author Bio:
Alice (Spaulding Taylor) McVeigh has been published by Orion/Hachette in contemporary fiction, by Unbound Publishing in action/adventure and by Warleigh Hall Press in Austenesque fiction. Her novels have won Gold Medal/First Place is the Global, eLit and Pencraft Book Awards, been runner-up in the Independent Press Awards, finalists in the Eric Hoffer, Rone and Wishing Shelf Book Awards and selected by Shelf Unbound as one of the “top indies” of 2021. Two of her novels are currently finalists in the CIBA Book Awards (the Cygnus and Goethe Awards). Her most recent novel (Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation) was just selected as Editors’ Pick “outstanding” on Publishers Weekly.
A professional London cellist, Alice lives in London and Crete with her professor husband: their only child is completing her Masters in Chinese Literature. They also share two miniature long-haired dachshunds and an incurable addiction to tennis.