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Northanger Abbey

[a reworking of the novel by Jane Austen]

Val McDermid

Buch

englisch

McDermid, Val (Verfasser/-in) DNB

Taschenbuch

Borough Press

London

2014

358 S.

978-0-00-750429-9

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 Cats wealthy neighbours, the Allens, invite her to the 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 Cats 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. Cats imagination runs riot: an ancient abbey, crumbling turrets, secret chambers, ghostsand 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 (Verlagstext)

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