Emma

Read by Belinda Lang, and seen through the eyes of Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen paints a charming, often ironic, picture of courtship and love. The novel is set in Highbury, a sizeable village in Surrey, where social life is dominated by the intelligent and wealthy young lady Emma, who has too little to occupy herself and turns to matchmaking on behalf of her friends and neighbours to relieve boredom.

Her schemes meet with varying degrees of success, until she finally learns to concentrate on her own life and leave others to live theirs. Emma is an exquisitely crafted portrait of late 18th Century society, widely considered to be Austen’s most accomplished work.