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Henry’s father is a retired general and has his three children in an iron grip of strict discipline.

She’s paired up with Henry Tilney, he’s been to many a highland ball and he helps out at the dance school when they’re short of male partners. They are invited to the Highland Ball, it’s the social event of the festival and Cat has to go to dancing lessons to learn Scottish country dancing. She lives through novels.Ĭat and Susie have a great time in Edinburgh, with Cat determined to see as much of the place as possible, taking Susie to places she had never been before, despite her being a festival regular.

Cat has been home schooled and now that she is 17 she’s at a loose end, having no qualifications to get into college and having no idea what she wants to do with her life. When a wealthy neighbour and his wife Susie offer to take Cat to Edinburgh for the festival she jumps at the chance. McDermid chose to change the setting to Edinburgh during the festival, giving herself plenty of scope to create an interesting and vibrant background for Cat (as the modern Catherine Morland styles herself) and her friends.Ĭat is the daughter of a Church of England vicar and she lives with her family in Dorset. I enjoyed this one more than Alexander McCall Smith’s updated Emma. She's all alone in an ancient abbey alive with old secrets and a family who are not quite as they seem.Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid is one of those rewrites done by contemporary authors to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice. Turrets and creaking doors there may be, but in the depths of the Scottish Borders Cat is isolated from the outside world, with no phone signal and no internet.

An invite to the Edinburgh Festival from some wealthy neighbours throws her in the way of a mysterious young man, Henry Tilney a like-minded friend, Isabella Thorpe and her odious brother, who threatens to ruin Cat's chances of adventure.īut this heroine is not so easily deterred, especially when she's singled out by the Tilney family to stay with them at their imposing gothic castle, Northanger Abbey. To cope, she devours as many novels as possible, especially anything supernatural.īut 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. For Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid.