Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid, Grove Press, New York, 2014.
This
book is a modern reworking of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same
name. This novel hangs on an assumption to make it even sound
plausible—that Catherine Morland’s reading of vampire books would lead
her to suspect the family she is staying with of being vampires. I just
couldn’t buy that premise and so this book didn’t quite work for me.
It
had the lure of a trip to Scotland for a book and drama festival; the
social life of the North Country. It also had the mystery surrounding
Northanger Abbey, where the mother had passed away from cancer and they
were all still dealing with this wound. Northanger Abbey had been
redecorated for the most part, so there was not the castle façade, but
that of a modern home.
And
then there was a brother and sister who looked alluring, but in the end
were not, and the love interest in Henry, the handsome dancer who works
as a lawyer. In the end, to profess his love, he must go against the
wishes of his father.
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