Emma Harcourt Emma Harcourt i(A7666 works by)
Born: Established: 1967 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Girl Versus Goddess Emma Harcourt , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 June 2024; (p. 16)

— Review of Psykhe Kate Forsyth , 2024 single work novel
1 Trading on Power of Beauty Emma Harcourt , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20 April 2024; (p. 17)

— Review of The Beauties Lauren Chater , 2024 single work novel
1 A Woman Who Won’t Disappear Emma Harcourt , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24 February 2024; (p. 16)

— Review of Tilda Is Visible Jane Tara , 2024 single work novel
1 Home Is Where the Art Is Emma Harcourt , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 April 2023; (p. 20)

'She is one of Australia’s most successful literary exports but, as Kate Morton tells Emma Harcourt, there is nothing quite like coming home Kate Morton well remembers the first house that teased her imagination, as a four-year-old.'

1 A Delight for Lovers of Drama Emma Harcourt , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 April 2023; (p. 24)

— Review of Prettier If She Smiled More Toni Jordan , 2023 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon The Brightest Star Emma Harcourt , Sydney : Harlequin , 2022 24802067 2022 single work novel historical fiction

'A thirst for learning and a passion for astronomy draw an extraordinary young woman deep into the intellectual maelstrom, political complexities and religious extremism of Renaissance Florence. This beautifully crafted novel will appeal to readers of Karen Brooks' The Good Wife of Bath and Pip Williams' Dictionary of Lost Words.

'1496 It is the height of the Renaissance and its flowering of intellectual and artistic endeavour, but the city state of Florence is in the grip of fundamentalist preacher Friar Girolamo Savonarola. Its good people believe the Lord speaks through him, just as certainly as the Sun circles the Earth.

'For Leonarda Lunetta, eldest daughter of the learned Signore Vincenzio Fusili, religion is not as interesting as the books she shares with her beloved father. Reading is an escape from the ridicule flung her way, for Luna is not like other girls. She was born with a misshapen leg and that, and her passion for intellectual pursuits alters how society sees her and how she sees the world.

'Luna wants to know, to learn, to become an astronomer who charts the night sky - certainly not the dutiful, marriageable daughter all of Florence society insists upon. So when Luna meets astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, she is not surprised that his heretical beliefs confirm her view that the world is not as it is presented - or how it could be. These dangerous ideas bring her into conflict with the preacher Savonarola, and her future is changed irrevocably as politics, extremism and belief systems ignite in a dangerous conflagration.

'Luna is a woman born out of time, the brightest star of her generation, but can she reconcile the girl of her father's making with this new version of herself? And if she does, will Renaissance Italy prove too perilous and dark a place for a free-thinking woman?'(Publication summary)

1 Living with Grief Emma Harcourt , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26 February 2022; (p. 22)

— Review of Found, Wanting Natasha Sholl , 2022 single work autobiography
1 Nursing Home Plays Host to a Migrant Tale Emma Harcourt , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5 February 2022; (p. 14)

— Review of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens Shankari Chandran , 2022 single work novel
1 Totally Devoted to Love and Miracles Emma Harcourt , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20 November 2021; (p. 14)

— Review of Devotion Hannah Kent , 2021 single work novel
1 Suburban Savagery Emma Harcourt , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 October 2021; (p. 17)

— Review of Wild Place Christian White , 2021 single work novel
1 Wife Gets Her Own Voice Emma Harcourt , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17 July 2021; (p. 16)

— Review of The Good Wife of Bath : A (Mostly) True Tale Karen Brooks , 2021 single work novel

'Chaucer’s most famous work, The Canterbury Tales, is a series of poems in Middle English in which 31 pilgrims wending their way to the shrine of Thomas Beckett in Canterbury each tell a tale to pass the time. One of the group is a Wife and hers is a lust-filled, boastful tale of her five marriages.' (Introduction)

1 y separately published work icon The Shanghai Wife Emma Harcourt , Sydney South : HQ Fiction , 2018 13530838 2018 single work novel historical fiction

'Shanghai, 1925: Leaving behind the loneliness and trauma of her past in country Australia, Annie Brand arrives to the political upheaval and glittering international society of Shanghai in the 1920s. Journeying up the Yangtze with her new husband, the ship's captain, Annie revels in the sense of adventure but when her husband decides the danger is too great and sends her back to Shanghai, her freedom is quickly curtailed.

'Against her will, Annie finds herself living alone in the International Settlement, increasingly suffocated by the judgemental Club ladies and their exclusive social scene: one even more restrictive than that she came from. Sick of salacious gossip and colonial condescension, and desperate to shake off the restrictions of her position in the world, Annie is slowly drawn into the bustling life and otherness of the real Shanghai, and begins to see the world from the perspective of the local people, including the servants who work at her husband's Club.

'But this world is far more complex and dangerous than the curious Annie understands and unknowingly, she becomes caught in a web of intrigue and conspiracy as well as a passionate and forbidden love affair she could not have predicted: one with far–reaching consequences…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Benelong's Haven i "A dry-out centre for drunks", Emma Harcourt , 1987 single work poetry
— Appears in: 1987 Anthology of Australian Poetry 1987; (p. 217)
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