Kissing Emma

Resource Information

The work Kissing Emma represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Kissing Emma

Statement of responsibility

Shaparak Khorsandi

Creator

• Khorsandi, Shappi, 1973-

Author

• Khorsandi, Shappi, 1973-

Subject

• Fiction
• High schools -- Juvenile fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
• Models (Persons) -- Juvenile fiction
• Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
• Poverty -- Social aspects -- Juvenile fiction
• Beauty, Personal -- Juvenile fiction
• Social problem fiction
• Teenage girls -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction
• trueYoung adult fiction
• Social classes -- Juvenile fiction
• Class consciousness -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Social problem fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Emma and her mother are down on their luck. They're taking turns sleeping on the sofa in her nan's tiny flat, and desperately trying to come up with an escape plan. Emma is struggling with her family, struggling at school where the girls are bitchy towards her and the boys only seem to want one thing, and struggling with never having enough money for anything, ever. Just as she's contemplating quitting school to get a real job, she meets two men who convince her that she has a shot at modelling. But their motives are far from innocent, and Emma is soon pulled into a dark world. And then she meets Con, who is rich, handsome and so romantic! Has Emma's luck finally changed? Kissing Emma is inspired by the real life and untold story of Emma Hamilton, Lord Nelson's mistress. But Shappi Khorsandi's modern Emma is going to get the happy ending her namesake never did, and stick two fingers up at the men who dare to take advantage of young women while she's doing it

Dewey number

823.92

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adolescent