![]() ![]() She's all alone in an ancient abbey alive with old secrets and a family who are not quite as they seem. 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. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. For Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid digested read John Crace condenses a pale imitation of Austen's gothic pastiche with added vampire intrigue into a bite-sized 600 words Northanger Abbey. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. ![]()
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