Northanger Abbey
2 journalers for this copy...
Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey.
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… (ama**)
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… (ama**)
What kind of book is that??
I was so disappointed... I thought it more 'grown up' but this was neither chick lit nor
an Austen spin off... it was just an attempt to bring it into nowadays life... which didn't work.
And - honestly - the reason why General Tilney threw Cat out of his house - hello?? I really went like "what???"
Of course McDermid couldn't take the 'money' reason Jane Austen used (wouldn't work as a reason today!) but this...
So - this book is rubbish, but I will nonetheless see
whether there is another reader giving it a try,.
I was so disappointed... I thought it more 'grown up' but this was neither chick lit nor
an Austen spin off... it was just an attempt to bring it into nowadays life... which didn't work.
And - honestly - the reason why General Tilney threw Cat out of his house - hello?? I really went like "what???"
Of course McDermid couldn't take the 'money' reason Jane Austen used (wouldn't work as a reason today!) but this...
So - this book is rubbish, but I will nonetheless see
whether there is another reader giving it a try,.
And off it is on its way to Malaysia!
happy travelling...
happy travelling...
Journal Entry 4 by tohweiee at Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Received it about a week ago but couldn't find the time to journal it. Thanks so much kiki66!
