Miss Emily Dickinson Finds a New Companion in the Kitchen

Award-winning Irish short-story author Nuala O'Connor not only pays tribute to the beloved writers who have come before her, but she brings one back to life on the page. Exploring the entwined lives of Emily Dickinson and her fictionalized maid Ada Concannon, Miss Emily portrays the blossoming of an upstairs-downstairs friendship in 1850s Amherst, Massachusetts.

Excerpted from Circling The Sun. Copyright © 2015 Paula McLain. Published by Bond Street Books, a division of Random House of Canada Ltd., a Penuin Random House Company. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.