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Northanger Abbey / Val McDermid.

Northanger Abbey / Val McDermid.
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Adult Fiction   Bankstown . . On Loan . 12 Apr 2024
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ISBN 9780007504244 (hbk.)
0007504241 (hbk.)
Name McDermid, Val author.
Title Northanger Abbey / Val McDermid.
Published London The Borough Press, [2014]
?2014
Description 343 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary A modern re-imagining of the Gothic Classic Northanger Abbey by the bestselling crime author Val McDermid. The second book in The Austen Project. 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. So when Cat's wealthy neighbours, the Allens, invite her to Edinburgh Festival, she is sure adventure beckons. Edinburgh initially offers no such thrills: Susie Allen is obsessed by shopping, Andrew Allen by the Fringe. 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. And an introduction to Bella Thorpe, who shares her passion for supernatural novels, provides Cat with a like-minded friend. But with Bella comes her brother John, an obnoxious banker whose vulgar behaviour seems designed to thwart Cat's growing fondness for Henry. Happily, rescue is at hand. The rigidly formal General Tilney invites her to stay at Northanger with son Henry and daughter Eleanor. 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 real world outside the pages of a novel proves to be altogether more disturbing than the imagined world within..
Subjects Children of clergy -- Fiction
Female friendship -- Fiction
Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction
Young women -- Fiction
Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction
Other Names Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Northanger Abbey Based on,
Series Austen project 2
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