Miss Bates: Emma Revisited: A Novel

"I read Miss Bates in a single, enraptured sitting. Cliff's prose is a joy — precise and rich and wickedly observant."—Belle Burden, New York Times bestselling author of Strangers

Miss Bates, creepy, funny, and heartbreaking, is a daring reimagining of the world of Jane Austen's Emma. But make no mistake, this is no marriage plot; it is a spinster plot. Or maybe, it is the spinster’s plot.

Henrietta Bates, the iconic bore of Emma, is the opposite of handsome, clever, and rich Emma: she is pl...