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Northanger Abbey

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April 2014 Book of the Month.

A modern re-imagining of the Gothic Classic Northanger Abbey by the bestselling crime author Val McDermid. The second book in The Austen Project. In Val's trademark style of great storytelling and suspense meet modern day Cat whose world is turned upside down and her innocence lost as she is taken from rural Dorset to experience the bright lights of Edinburgh and the festival. Seamless prose complementing dialogue that's speckled with wit, it is clear that Val McDermid clearly relished the writing of this contemporary and page-turning take on Northanger Abbey. 

This is the second novel in 'The Austen Project', following hot on the heels of Joanna Trollope's Sense & Sensibility, and will be followed by Alexander McCall Smith's Emma in Autumn 2014 and Curtis Sittenfeld's Pride & Prejudice in Autumn 2015.

A message from Val McDermid:

'Being a writer is about embracing challenges. Northanger Abbey is the least read and the least well-known of Jane Austen's novels.  But only because our reading interests have changed and we don't get the joke that underpins the book.  the challenge for me was to make this reworking come alive, with a sprinkling of wit and a dash of dramatic suspense.'

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