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...
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...
- ISBN:
- 9780007504275
- 9780007504275
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Publication Date:
- 01-04-2014
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions (mm):
- 234x153x31mm
- Weight:
- 0.56kg
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1 Review
Full of text abbreviations, teen vernacular and vampire fixation, Val McDermid has re-imagined Jane Austens Northanger Abbey at a contemporary Edinburgh Festival. Bella Thorpe and John Thorpe are just as annoying as they were in the original and Cat just as keen to be thrilled by the gothic. Her relationship with Henry Tilney begins over a Scottish country dancing lesson and her friendship with Ellie Tilney is sealed over a love of the book series Hebridean Harpies. I found some parts of the story frustrating and unconvincing, specifically social formalities of the early 19th century still being present in this modern setting. Whilst the same sections irritated me in the original, I was less frustrated by them because the social constraints of the time were convincing. I found the characters being so hung up by the same conventions in the present day a little harder to swallow. Saying that it is a fun read and it is always enjoyable to read a re-imagining of a book, particularly such a classic.
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