Emma: A Modern Retelling

by Alexander McCall Smith

“When one has said the wrong thing, I find that the best policy—beyond all doubt—is not to make things worse by claiming to be doing something one was not going to do.”

There are those who like Britten, but what he has to say about Venice would hardly encourage one to visit the place…”

anybody

All of us are either orphans already or destined to become orphans.”

We do not choose the bed we are born in.”