A review by margaret21
Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid

3.0

A clever reworking of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. Society-watching in Bath is replaced by people-watching at the Edinburgh Festival, distressed gentlefolk by a country vicar's family, social climbers by - well, social climbers, and Hooray Henry (sorry, Hooray John) by Jeremy Clarkson. Gothic authors are replaced by their 21st century equivalents, and all in all, this is an amusing tale which will send me back to re-read the book that started it all off. The real Northanger Abbey