Miss Bates

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

"A delicious premise."—Alida Becker, The New York Times Book Review "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 Em