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by Elisabeth Luard

Author:	Elisabeth Luard
Subcategory:	Contemporary
Language:	English
Publisher:	Corgi; New Ed edition (1995)
Pages:	720 pages
Category:	Fiction and Literature
Rating:	4.5
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Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food-writer, journalist and broadcaster who often illustrates her own work.

A marvelous 'what if' novel(THE BOOKSELLER) about the daughter abandoned. Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food-writer, journalist and broadcaster who often illustrates her own work. Her most recent cookbook, A Cook's Year in a Welsh Kitchen with photography by Clare Richardson, was published by Bloomsbury in 2010. Previous books include European Peasant Cookery (US The Old World Kitchen), Festival Food and Tapas, all of which are in print with Grub Street. Others Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food-writer, journalist and broadcaster who often illustrates her own work.

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She has published 2 novels, one of which, Emerald, won the WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award.

Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food-writer, journalist and broadcaster who often illustrates her own work. She has published 2 novels, one of which, Emerald, won the WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award.

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Authors : Luard, Elisabeth. Product Category : Books. List Price (MSRP) : . 9. About Universal Books Limited. Publication Date : 1994-09-08. Publisher : Bantam Press. Emerald by Elisabeth Luard (Hardback, 1994). Pre-owned: lowest price.

Elisabeth luard: what book. Updated: 14:26 GMT, 19 May 2011. Elisabeth Luard's A Cook's Year In A Welsh Farmhouse will be published by Bloomsbury on Monday at £25.

Город: London, EnglandПодписчиков: 2 ты. себе: I'm a food & travel writer and illustrat. себе: I'm a food & travel writer and illustrator. I've written 22 cookbooks and 4 autobiogs-with-food.

Comments:

Marinara

I enjoyed this book about the fictional daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. It was enjoyable and a good read.
Thanks, Noelle

Doktilar

My mum loved the book

Wafi

Still reading it and enjoying it to the max!

Dikus

Wallis Simpson and Edward the Eighth have a secret love-child in this alternative history. While the relationship between the two, carried on at country houses, is devoted, they can't openly raise a child who could be a contender for the throne which Edward has to leave. So the girl Emerald is brought up in a home in South America, friendly with locals and away from airs and graces.

The life story and romance of this young woman makes for an entertaining look at the times and while she can never claim her birthright, we see her at the auction of Wallis Simpson's jewellery at the end, and decide that she is better off to have been her own woman. I recommend this read, which is not too challenging, for those who like history and who wonder what if?

Yayrel

I read this book a few months ago. I was intrigued by the premise---the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson have a child and they give it away. This is the story of a love that brought down a king.
Emerald is the unfortunate child. Although Wallis believes her dead (in a freak storm), Emerald lives her life trying to find out who she really is. She is manipulated by the adults around her, adn runs away to become a model in Paris. She is successful, but runs into Wallis Simpson--who is shocked that her daughter is alive. Although there is never a touching Mother-Daughter reunion, I got the feeling that maybe in the back of her mind Wallis loved Emerald.
That being said, I loved this book. The characters, although they were loosely based in reality, became clear to me. The Duke & Duchess are portrayed as whiny, self-indulgent people who can't see anything beyond their own wants, but of the two the Duke is marginally more tolerable than Wallis. I don't know how accurate the portrayals are, but you can tell the book was well researched.
This is a good read and is highly recommended.

Lonesome Orange Kid

This book poses and ponders the question: What if the Duke of Windsor (the ex-Edward VIII) and Mrs. Simpson had an illegitimate child...what would her life have been like?
Emerald's story is beautifully told, engrossing, and on occasion heartwrenchingly sad. The plot has enthralling twists and turns and is refreshingly unpredicatable. There is a surprise lurking around every corner!
The characters evoke strong emotional reactions, a sure sign of the author's tremendous storytelling ability. A plethora of full-bodied, three-dimensional fictional creations and non-fictional characters inhabit this wonderful story, all possessing their own unique strengths and weaknessess. All had reasons for their actions and even the most disagreeable of characters was understandable.
The author's possession of a vast wealth of knowledge is apparent in her ability to write convincingly about topics ranging from the lives of the English aristocracy, to clandestine operations during the Second World War, to various facets of Mexican culture, high fashion in Paris, and the reproductive biology of insects!
This is a very impressive book and a truly incredible and entertaining read. Highly recommended!

Atineda

I've read worse books, but that says more about the state of the publishing industry than about Emerald.
It's another one of those books, where the heroine is impossibly beautiful, and manages to overcome a humble beginning to be fabulously rich and successful ... and, of course, she gets the boy. So far, I've described the perfect beach read, but Emerald has far more going on than that.
Two examples, and then I'll let you read the other recommendations that yield this novel an astonishing average rating of 4 stars.
First, Emerald spends her adolescence in Mexico, where she has her first boyfriend. His name was Nacho.
Second, the man she's in love with throughout the story, the star-crossed lover in question is ... her adopted brother??? Ew? This is never addressed properly, in my estimation. Luard attempts to gloss over the genesis of their relationship, but HE WAS HER BROTHER.
Poor old Nacho doesn't even merit a phone call.

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