Austen is understated, mysterious, foreboding. Cat is going on a vampire hunt but without the delicious unease of the original. Cat Morland has a "passion for atmospheric architecture", along with books, yet it felt like a tacked-on enthusiasm. Fascinatingly so.īut, while the artefacts of our time have a striking presence, McDermid's atmosphere remains shallow. You can imagine the growing excitement in the marketing. The idea, dreamt up by some clever operative at HarperCollins, is that a well-known novelist produce a contemporary version of each of Jane Austen’s six novels. With instant communication available to McDermid, this version acquired an altogether different flavour. It is an odd thing, the so-called Austen Project. Northanger Abbey Val McDermid Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Fiction - 368 pages 17 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's. It heightened the temperament of Austen's novel. With communication slow in her time (the arrival of a letter, gossip), it prolonged expectation and misunderstandings. I wondered about the impact of social media upon Austen's plot and characters. The festival provides good reason for reading discussion and reflects the wider visibility of books in modern times. This feeds perfectly into Austen's engagement with books in her narrative. The action is shifted to Scotland, set during the Edinburgh International Book Festival. When the hero is not sighted at the Book Festival grounds, Cat Morland fancies he might attend a dramatisation of a bestselling novel, which features love, zombies and patisserie.
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