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Nick Higham talks to Alexander McCall Smith about his reworking of Jane Austen's Emma.

Nick Higham talks to Alexander McCall Smith about his reworking of Jane Austen's classic, Emma.

Nick Higham talks to Alexander McCall Smith, best known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The author talks about his reworking of Jane Austen's classic, Emma. McCall Smith's work is the third instalment of a six-book series of Austen rewrites, following Joanna Trollope's version of Sense and Sensibility and Scottish crime writer Val McDermid's interpretation of Northanger Abbey.

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