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Hester Browne

Hester Browne is the New York Times bestselling author of The Little Lady Agency; Little Lady, Big Apple; and The Little Lady Agency and the Prince. Born in England, she read English at Trinity College, Cambridge. A devotee of Scottish reeling,... Read full bio

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Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
A. Dancing. There's something about dancing that makes me absolutely glad to be alive, whether it's sweeping around the floor in a romantic foxtrot, or being part of a surging crowd at a gig. I had a moment of true happiness earlier this year - I was at a reeling...
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By any other name
October 9, 2009
It sounds ridiculous, but for me, the hardest part of any book isn't the plan or the plot or the setting, but working out what...
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Feeling very September
September 28, 2009
Although it's (cough) several years since I had that back to school feeling for real, there's a whiff of Autumn Term here in...
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The Finishing Touches will be released on March 23, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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By any other name
Oct 10, 2009
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Feeling very September
Sep 29, 2009
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Meet Hester Browne
Jun 27, 2009
The Finishing Touches is now available in eBook
Jun 09, 2009
The Finishing Touches will be released on June 09, 2009 in eBook
Jun 09, 2009
The Finishing Touches is now available in Hardcover
Jun 09, 2009
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What are your 5 favorite books of all time?
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Who are your favorite authors?
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What comment do you hear most often from your readers?
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Who is your favorite fictional hero?
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Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
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Is there a book you love to reread?
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What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
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Jun 02, 2009
Interview:
Interview with Hester Browne
May 27, 2009
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Chapter 1 from The Finishing Touches
May 19, 2009
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What’s your greatest fear?
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How would you describe perfect happiness?
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If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
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If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
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If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
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What do you regret most?
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If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
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The Finishing Touches will be released on June 09, 2009 in Hardcover
Dec 19, 2008
The Little Lady Agency in the Big Apple will be released on November 25, 2008 in Mass Market Paperback
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The Little Lady Agency in the Big Apple is now available in Mass Market Paperback
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The Little Lady Agency and the Prince will be released on September 09, 2008 in Trade Paperback
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The Little Lady Agency and the Prince is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Little Lady Agency and the Prince will be released on September 09, 2008 in
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The Little Lady Agency and the Prince is now available in
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The Little Lady Agency and the Prince will be released on February 05, 2008 in Hardcover
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The Little Lady Agency and the Prince is now available in Hardcover
Feb 05, 2008
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince will be released on February 05, 2008 in eBook
Feb 05, 2008
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince is now available in eBook
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The Little Lady Agency and the Prince will be released on February 05, 2008 in
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The Little Lady Agency and the Prince is now available in
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The Little Lady Agency will be released on December 26, 2007 in Mass Market Paperback
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The Little Lady Agency is now available in Mass Market Paperback
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Little Lady, Big Apple will be released on October 02, 2007 in Trade Paperback
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Little Lady, Big Apple is now available in Trade Paperback
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Little Lady, Big Apple will be released on February 06, 2007 in eBook
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Little Lady, Big Apple is now available in eBook
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Little Lady, Big Apple is now available in
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The Little Lady Agency will be released on September 05, 2006 in Trade Paperback
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The Little Lady Agency is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Little Lady Agency will be released on February 07, 2006 in eBook
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The Little Lady Agency is now available in eBook
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Chapter 1 from The Little Lady Agency
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Chapter 1 from The Little Lady Agency and the Prince
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Chapter 1 from The Little Lady Agency in the Big Apple
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Chapter 1 from Little Lady, Big Apple
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Hester Browne Revealed

Q. What’s your best quality? A. I can see the funny side of pretty much anything apart from tax returns Q. What’s your fantasy profession? A. Motoring correspondent for Tatler Q. What are your most overused words or phrases? A. oh, fabulous! Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero? A. Romantic hero? I have a longterm crush on Luke the Real Man from "Rachel's Holiday" by Marian Keyes: not only is he tall, dark and Irish, he's also strong yet sensitive - swoon. I've also loved Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse since I read 'Emma' at school. She feels like a very modern heroine, even in that nineteenth century setting - Emma worries about coasting by on charm, but doesn't do much about improving herself; she gossips and sets up her friends on dates, instead of examining her own heart; she can't resist a wisecrack, up to the moment when she humiliates poor silly Miss Bates at the picnic and feels the wrath of Knightley as well as her own guilt. The novel's nearly two hundred years old, but who hasn't let a cruel comment slip in the office kitchen, only to cringe at that 'you've gone too far!' tumbleweed - and realised, to their horror, that their work crush is listening in? And yet Emma learns, sort of, so there's hope for all of us careless wisecrackers (by which I mean me). Having said that, I'm not sure being Mrs Knightley would be quite as much fun as being Mrs Darcy, but that's a whole other discussion. Learn more about Hester Browne

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The Finishing Touches - Book Review - by Hester Browne - A touching tale with just a hint of mystery.
TheCelebrityCafe.com, September 18, 2009
...to honor her mother?s memory and to prove to her father that she is Phillimore Academy material. Hester Browne loses no time winning hearts with her baby on the doorstep at a fashionable and venerable London finishing school. Who can resist a beautiful...
Book Review: The Finishing Touches by Hester Browne
Blogcritics.org, July 14, 2009
...is made for us - like when we lose of loved one. This is the change occurring in Hester Browne's newest novel, The Finishing Touches. Betsy Phillimore has just lost her mother - well, the only mother she's ever known, that is. Left as an infant on...
At the Library: Try some 'Chick Lit' this summer
Herald Bulletin, June 22, 2009
...confessions are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance 'The Little Lady Agency' by Hester Browne Melissa Romney-Jones can bake a perfect sponge cake, type her little heart out, and plan a party blindfolded. But none of that has...
Summer Reading: Part 1
Examiner.com, June 4, 2009
...Rachel Johnson (Simon & Schuster) Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (Simon & Schuster) The Finishing Touches by Hester Browne (Simon & Schuster) Border Songs by Jim Lynch (Random House) Lime Tree Can?t Bear Orange by Amanda Smyth (Random House) Dead Ex...
Monthly Review: September 2009
S. Krishna's Books, October 2, 2009
...Kamila Shamsie Crossing Washington Square – Joanne Rendell The Divorce Party – Laura Dave The Finishing Touches – Hester Browne Forever in Blue – Ann Brashares Graceling – Kristin Cashore The Greatest Knight –...
Oh hi, it's the last day of September.
My Heart is Filled With the Pain of Disco, September 30, 2009
...time I want a Little Women fix I'll just pull out the movie. The Finishing Touches by Hester Browne When nostalgia didn't work I turned to something brand new, the story of a finishing school in a posh London neighborhood and Betsy, a young woman who was...
Monthly Review: August 2009
S. Krishna's Books, September 2, 2009
...Sari Shop Widow – Shobhan Bantwal The Lace Makers of Glenmara - Heather Barbieri The Finishing Touches – Hester Browne After You – Julie Buxbaum Graceling – Kristin Cashore The Greatest Knight – Elizabeth Chadwick The Hunger...
July 2009 Summation
The Bluestocking Society, July 31, 2009
...and the Housewife . I missed the meeting again! Our selections for next month are The Finishing Touches , by Hester Browne (face-to-face discussion) and Lolita , by Vladimir Nabokov (online discussion). Challenges Here’s my exceedingly long...
July 2009 Summation
The Bluestocking Society, July 31, 2009
...and the Housewife . I missed the meeting again! Our selections for next month are The Finishing Touches , by Hester Browne (face-to-face discussion) and Lolita , by Vladimir Nabokov (online discussion). Challenges Here’s my exceedingly long...
Reading Related Injury
Christina Rundle, January 22, 2009
...I've started to enjoy my free-falling dreams. Talk about liking things, I am so in love with Hester Browne's "Little Lady Agency" novels. I'm reading the first one, but man alive I want to get my hands on my of her books. Too bad I made...