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Emma Garman is a writer living in the seaside city of Brighton, UK. Her journalism has appeared in Literary Review, History News Network, Lapham’s Quarterly, and The Daily Beast, and she wrote “Feminize Your Canon,” a column for The Paris Review about brilliant and undersung women authors. Emma's debut novel, The Kindness of Strangers, is out now from Summit Books/Simon & Schuster in the US and Virago Press in the UK. ...more

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“The cinema was a more reliable balm, that escape for hours into a dark, smoky room, alone and yet safely alongside others. He liked comedies best. To try to make people laugh was to Saul the very essence of goodness.”
― Emma Garman, The Kindness of Strangers: A Novel

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“What a nuisance sex was, thought Honor. Life would be so straightforward, so civilized, without it.”
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“It was less love at first sight than “you’ll do” at first sight.”
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