I Could Write a Book

By Karen M Cox

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich…"
Thus began Jane Austen's classic, a light and lively tale set in an English village two hundred years ago. Yet every era has its share of Emmas: young women trying to find themselves in their own corners of the world. 
I Could Write a Book is the story of a self-proclaimed modern woman: Emma Katherine Woodhouse, a 1970s co-ed whose life is pleasant, ordered, and predictable--if a bit confining. 
Her friend George Knightley is a man of the world who has come home to fulfill his destiny: run his father's thriving law practice and oversee the sprawling Donwell Farms, his family legacy in Central Kentucky horse country. 
Since childhood, George's and Emma's lives have meshed and separated time and again, but now they're adults with grown-up challenges and obligations. As Emma orchestrates life in quaint Highbury, George becomes less amused with her antics and struggles with a growing attraction to the young woman she's become. 
Rich with humor, poignancy, and the camaraderie of life in a small, Southern town, I Could Write a Book is a coming-of-age romance with side helpings of self-discovery, friendship, and finding true love in the most unlikely places.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Adalia Street Press
• Release date: Sep 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9780999100011

Karen M Cox

Karen M Cox is an award-winning author of novels accented with romance and history, including 1932, Find Wonder in All Things, Undeceived, and I Could Write a Book. Her ebook novella, The Journey Home, is a companion piece to 1932.  She also contributed a short story, “Northanger Revisited 2015”, to the anthology, Sun-Kissed: Effusions of Summer, a story titled, “I, Darcy” to The Darcy Monologues, and a short story, “An Honest Man”, in Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen’s Rakes and Gentleman Rogues. Karen was born in Everett WA, which was the result of coming into the world as the daughter of a United States Air Force Officer. She had a nomadic childhood, with stints in North Dakota, Tennessee and New York State before finally settling in her family’s home state of Kentucky at the age of eleven. She lives in a quiet little town with her husband, where she works as a pediatric speech pathologist, encourages her children, and spoils her granddaughter.