The author creates a complete narrative around the twenty pages of unfinished manuscript by Charlotte Bront.

As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mar-protected dust cover. Emma Brown / Clare Boylan and Charlotte Bront. What they discover is a tale that travels the highs and lows of nineteenth-century England, an investigation that changes all their lives forever. So who is Matilda? With Miss Wilcox unable to extract any information out of the girl, it falls to a local lawyer, Mr Ellin, and a young widow, Isabel Chalfant, to unravel the truth. Even though Clare Boylan tells us that the first two chapters were originally written by Ch.B., and she (Boylan) took up from there, it is difficult to perceive any bridging. Conway Fitzgibbon, like the address he left behind, does not exist. This book is quite unusual, because it was developed from the unfinished manuscript by Charlotte Bronte. Now, almost 150 years later, Clare Boylan has returned to this most intriguing of fragments, and turned them into an astonishing story of mystery, atmosphere and page-turning suspense.When Conway Fitzgibbon arrives. But as Christmas approaches, and Miss Wilcox inquires about arrangements for the holidays, she is in for a shock. When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855, she left behind the beginnings of a new novel - twenty pages of a work in progress called Emma.

The ladies' school is limited in numbers and eager for new pupils, particularly ones so finely dressed, and boasting a father who is 'quite the gentleman'. When Conway Fitzgibbon arrives at Fuchsia Lodge with his daughter Matilda, the headmistress Miss Wilcox couldn't be more delighted. Now, almost 150 years later, Clare Boylan has returned to this most intriguing of fragments, and turned them into an astonishing story of mystery, atmosphere and page-turning suspense. When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855, she left behind the beginnings of a new novel - twenty pages of a work in progress called EMMA.

Emma Brown by Clare Boylan