kathyh256 's review for:

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

5.0

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I read this once as a teenager many years ago so this was almost like reading an entirely new Jane Austen novel. A lot of the humour went completely over my teenage head so that was a delightful discovery and I really enjoyed this coming of age story of a very ordinary young girl who learns to distinguish false friends from true ones and the dangers of letting her imagination run away with her. The satire on Gothic novels was great fun but the social comedy and the characters were where the novel really shone. A lighter Jane Austen novel but very much worth reading.