![]() ![]() McDermid has taken possession of Northanger Abbey."- New York Times Book Review Engages in a witty conversation with the original. "There's an archness and precision to McDermid's prose that beautifully echoes Austen's own. ![]() Maybe she has just been reading too many novels? Cat is entranced by Henry and his charming sister Eleanor, but she can't help but wonder if everything about them is as perfect as it seems. And then she meets handsome Henry Tilney, who lives at the beautiful and forbidding Northanger Abbey. Cat quickly begins to take Edinburgh by storm and is taken into the bosom of the Thorpe family, particularly by eldest daughter Bella. So imagine her delight when her neighbors, the Allens, invite her to attend the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh as their guest. A homeschooled minister's daughter in the quaint, sheltered Piddle Valley in Dorset, Cat Morland loses herself in novels (and, of course, her smartphone) and is sure there is a glamorous adventure awaiting her beyond the valley's narrow horizon. ![]() Now in paperback, Val McDermid's Northanger Abbey is an updated take on Jane Austen's classic novel about a young woman whose visit to the stately home of a well-to-do acquaintance stirs her most macabre imaginings. "Long before our modern-day crime author draws a final, canny ace from her tartan sleeve, you'll have succumbed to the delights of Northanger la McDermid."- The Boston Globe ![]()
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