Miss Emily

Listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction, Miss Emily (2015) by Nuala O’Connor is the American debut of this award-winning Irish author. Eighteen-year-old Ada Concannon has just been hired by the respected but eccentric Dickinson family of Amherst, Massachusetts. Despite their difference in age and the upstairs-downstairs divide, Ada strikes up a deep friendship with Miss Emily, the gifted elder daughter living a spinster’s life at home. But Emily’s passion for words begins to dominate her life. She will wear only white and avoids the world outside the Dickinson homestead. When Ada’s safety and reputation are threatened, however, Emily must face down her own demons in order to help her friend, with shocking consequences. "A beautifully imagined account of an unlikely bond." --  People Magazine Nuala O’Connor is a well-regarded short-story writer and novelist in her native Ireland, writing under the name Nuala Ní Chonchúir, and has won many fiction awards, including RTÉ radio’s Francis MacManus Award, the Cúirt New Writing Prize, the Jane Geske Award, the inaugural Jonathan Swift Award, and the Cecil Day Lewis Award, among others. Her short story Peach  was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she was shortlisted for the European Prize for Literature for her short story collection Nude . She was born in Dublin in 1970 and lives in East Galway with her husband and three children.    Buy Now from Amazon