Review: A lightweight read.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 30, 2012
Tea with Emma is a lightweight novella which would have dug deeper into the characters if the author had made it a full length novel. I felt they were not fleshed out as well as they could be and the main character - Maddie - was very irritating with her penchant for "knowing" what was best for everyone. The subsequent pain which she manages to cause made me feel little sympathy for her as a character. The stranger across the road, the Professor, was a stereotype character whose change of personality was far too fast to be convincing.The author's idea of using a tea cup collection around which to build a novel about Austen and tea rooms was excellent, but unfortunately the reader gets very little of the actual tea room, which may have been really interesting if allowed to flourish.However, I shall read more work by this author!