Northanger abbey by val mcdermid5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Cat’s imagination runs riot: an ancient abbey, crumbling turrets, secret chambers, ghosts…and Henry! What could be more deliciously romantic? But Cat gets far more than she bargained for in this isolated corner of the Scottish Borders. The rigidly formal General Tilney invites her to stay at Northanger with son Henry and daughter Eleanor. ![]() But with Bella comes her brother John, an obnoxious banker whose vulgar behaviour seems designed to thwart Cat’s growing fondness for Henry. Due to these intriguing particularities, the paper at hand is based on Val McDermids modern retelling of Northanger Abbey. In the second installment of the Austen Project, which has contemporary writers updating. And an introduction to Bella Thorpe, who shares her passion for supernatural novels, provides Cat with a like-minded friend. by Val McDermid RELEASE DATE: April 15, 2014. A Highland Dance class, though, brings Cat a new acquaintance: Henry Tilney, a pale, dark-eyed gentleman whose family home, Northanger Abbey, sounds perfectly thrilling. Edinburgh initially offers no such thrills: Susie Allen is obsessed by shopping, Andrew Allen by the Fringe. So when Cat’s wealthy neighbours, the Allens, invite her to Edinburgh Festival, she is sure adventure beckons. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Catherine ‘Cat’ Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. ![]()
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