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Northanger Abbey

Internationally best-selling crime writer Val McDermid has riveted millions of readers worldwide with her acutely suspenseful, psychologically complex, seamlessly plotted thrillers. In -- Northanger Abbey tells a timeless story of innocence amid cynicism, the exquisite angst of young love, and the value of friendship.

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  • "Internationally best-selling crime writer Val McDermid has riveted millions of readers worldwide with her acutely suspenseful, psychologically complex, seamlessly plotted thrillers. In -- Northanger Abbey tells a timeless story of innocence amid cynicism, the exquisite angst of young love, and the value of friendship."@en
  • "A modern re-imagining of the Gothic Classic 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."
  • "Cat Morland is ready to grow up. A homeschooled minister's daughter in the quaint, sheltered Piddle Valley in Dorset, she loses herself in novels and is sure there is a glamorous adventure awaiting her beyond the valley's narrow horizon. So imagine her delight when the Allens, neighbours and friends of her parents, invite her to attend the Edinburgh Festival as their guest. Armed with a sunny personality, show tickets every night and a few key wardrobe additions, Cat begins to take Edinburgh by storm and is taken into the bosom of the Thorpe family, particularly by eldest daughter Bella. And then there's the handsome Henry Tilney, an up-and-coming lawyer whose family home is the beautiful and forbidding Northanger Abbey. Cat is entranced by Henry and his charming sister Eleanor, but she can't help wondering if everything about them is as perfect as it seems. Or has she just been reading too many novels? A delectable, note-perfect modern update of the Jane Austen classic, Northanger Abbey tells a timeless story of innocence amid cynicism, the exquisite angst of young love, and the value of friendship."
  • "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 ask her to accompany them to the Edinburgh Festival, she is sure adventure beckons. Edinburgh initially disappoints, but at a Highland dance class Cat meets Henry Tilney, a pale, dark-haired gentleman whose family home, Northanger Abbey, sounds perfectly thrilling. When Henry's father, the rigidly formal General Tilney, invites Cat to stay at Northanger Abbey with his family, 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..."
  • "In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets."@en
  • "Catherine 'Cat' Morland's sheltered existence in rural Dorset involves losing herself in novels and her smartphone; it has been entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. When Cat's neighbours invite her to Edinburgh Festival, she is sure adventure beckons. A Highland Dance class brings Cat a new acquaintance: Henry Tilney, a pale, dark-eyed gentleman whose family home sounds perfectly thrilling. When Cat is invited to stay at Northanger Abbey, her imagination runs riot: an ancient abbey, crumbling turrets, secret chambers, ghosts ... and Henry!"@en
  • "For Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary. To cope, she devours as many novels as possible, especially anything supernatural. 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. (Quelle: Verlagsinformationen)."
  • ""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. Witty and shrewd, full of romance and skulduggery'I loved it." 'J.K. Rowling The Austen Project continues: one of the world's premier contemporary thriller writers brings her skills to bear on Austen's gothic adventure In Austen's posthumously published Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland is a romantic, imaginative seventeen-year-old dazzled by her first foray into Bath's high-stakes social scene. She thinks her dreams have come true when she falls in love with the dashing and kind Henry Tilney. When Henry invites Catherine to his family's grandly mysterious ancestral country home, unanswered questions about his family's past start to emerge. She begins to suspect that her new flame's father may have murdered his wife, and that in entering into her new romance she may be risking not just her heart, but her life ... Val McDermid's Northanger Abbey is a modern twist on Jane Austen's witty and romantic novel. Austen satirized her era's fad for the gothic, and McDermid takes aim at our 21st-century obsession with the supernatural. Genuinely scary, tinged with edgy humour and full of surprising twists and turns, McDermid's reimagining of this underappreciated classic is a brilliant page-turner to keep readers on the edge of their seats and expecting the unexpected."@en

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  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Regency novels"
  • "Regency novels"@en
  • "Adaptations"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Novels"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Romance fiction"
  • "Romance fiction"@en
  • "Love stories"

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  • "Northanger Abbey"
  • "Northanger Abbey"@en
  • "Northanger abbey"@en
  • "Northanger Abbey : roman"

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