![]() ![]() She's all alone in an ancient abbey alive with old secrets and a family who are not quite as they seem. As part of a new series reimagining the novels of Jane Austen, venerated Scottish crime writer Val McDermid more often associated with blood and gore than with bonnets and balls takes on. The Boston Globe Now in paperback, Val McDermids Northanger Abbey is an updated take on Jane Austens classic novel about a young woman whose visit to the. ![]() Turrets and creaking doors there may be, but in the depths of the Scottish Borders Cat is isolated from the outside world, with no phone signal and no internet. An invite to the Edinburgh Festival from some wealthy neighbours throws her in the way of a mysterious young man, Henry Tilney a like-minded friend, Isabella Thorpe and her odious brother, who threatens to ruin Cat's chances of adventure.īut this heroine is not so easily deterred, especially when she's singled out by the Tilney family to stay with them at their imposing gothic castle, Northanger Abbey. To cope, she devours as many novels as possible, especially anything supernatural.īut if Cat can tear her eyes away from the page, she's in for a shock: the very stuff of her dreams is about to come true. Both books are in very good condition and appear. For Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary. The two books are: Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope (2013) and Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid (2014). Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. ![]() Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. ![]()
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