In the playful, observant world of Jane Austen’s Emma, a clever and well-meaning young woman with a talent for matchmaking finds her social confidence tested by mistaken assumptions, shifting affections, and the complicated realities of life and love in a small English community. Witty, charming, and acutely satirical, the novel follows Emma Woodhouse as she learns that understanding other people — and herself — is far more difficult than she imagined.