Her obvious pleasure in the task is as contagious as Austen's wit.' THE SCOTSMAN I can imagine Jane herself applauding.' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'McDermid's great virtue is to have made Austen's characters seem fresh in the way they would have been for her first readers. McDermid's Abbey, with its passageways and dark corners, is fantastic, and this novel is a lark.' SUNDAY TIMES McDermid is a subtle and witty writer and it's hard to imagine a better evocation of the spirit of the original.' THE TIMES captures beautifully how it feels to be a teenager. 'McDermid's reworking of the original novel is intelligent, amusing and well-written. Utter brilliance from McDermid' SUSAN CALMAN It's an exquisitely realised tale of the uncertainty and brutality of teenage years told with the lightness of touch and humour that Val is famous for. 'I picked up Northanger Abbey one evening and didn't stop reading until I'd finished it. 'Northanger Abbey is funny, clever, subversive and Scottish. 'Funny and brilliantly written' Jenny Colgan, Guardian I was utterly charmed by this newfangled Austen and look forward eagerly to Alexander McCall Smith's Emma'

Witty and shrewd, full of romance and skulduggery - I loved it.'

'Val McDermid's brilliant re-working of Jane Austen's original shows that innocent, bookish girls in thrall to the supernatural have changed surprisingly little in two centuries. Is real life about to become more terrifying than the world of her imagination? 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.

But 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. 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. But 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. To cope, she devours as many novels as possible, especially anything supernatural. For Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Produktbeschreibung Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid.

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