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Miranda Emmerson

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I am an author and dramatist. I grew up in London before studying English at Oxford and Playwriting Studies at Birmingham University. I now live in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales with my husband and our two daughters.

My travel and food memoir Fragrant Heart was published by Summersdale in 2014. My first novel Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars was published in 2017 by 4th Estate and Harper Collins. My second novel A Little London Scandal comes out summer 2020.

I'm a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 (sometimes as Miranda Davies) and I'm just completing a PhD in the history of BBC radio adaptation at Cardiff University. I'm represented for fiction and non fiction by Caroline Hardman at Hardman & Swainson and I'm @MirandaEmmerson on ...more

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Average rating: 3.52 · 1,206 ratings · 253 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, Emma Harding (Director), Joe Armstrong (Narrator Peter) 3.66 avg rating — 32,809 ratings — published 2014 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars 3.45 avg rating — 921 ratings — published 2017 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little London Scandal 3.67 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragrant Heart 3.57 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voices / Lleisiau by Nichola Hope (Editor), Dan Langford (Editor), Neil Lebeter (Foreword) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iz 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragrant Heart: A Tale of Love, Life and Food in South-East Asia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I feel like I could disappear because I'm not real to other people.”
― Miranda Emmerson, Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars

tags: disappear, loneliness

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“I feel as if I'm disappearing. I wake, I work, I eat, I sleep. No family, no great career. I could disappear tomorrow, like Iolanthe”
― Miranda Emmerson, Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars

tags: disappear

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“She honestly could not tell if she loved London or loathed it. For she could not decide for herself what London was at all.”
― Miranda Emmerson, Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars

tags: london

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