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. No bonnets – all brio’ Jeanette Winterson ‘Northanger Abbey is funny, clever, subversive and Scottish. ‘Funny and brilliantly written’ Jenny Colgan, Guardian ‘Brilliant… I was utterly charmed by this newfangled Austen and look forward eagerly to Alexander McCall Smith’s Emma’ John Sutherland, Financial Times Witty and shrewd, full of romance and skulduggery – I loved it.’ J.K. ‘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. She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. It has no missing or damaged pages, minimal creasing, no writing, notes or highlighting. Is real life about to become more terrifying than the world of her imagination?Ĭover image: For illustration purposes only 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. 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.Īn 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. To cope, she devours as many novels as possible, especially anything supernatural. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey.įor Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary. Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid.
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