![]() The real world outside the pages of a novel proves to be altogether more disturbing than the imagined world within. ![]() Cat's imagination runs riot: an ancient abbey, crumbling turrets, secret chambers, ghosts.and Henry! What could be more deliciously romantic? But Cat gets far more than she bargained for in this isolated corner of the Scottish Borders. ![]() The rigidly formal General Tilney invites her to stay at Northanger with son Henry and daughter Eleanor. But with Bella comes her brother John, an obnoxious banker whose vulgar behaviour seems designed to thwart Cat's growing fondness for Henry. And an introduction to Bella Thorpe, who shares her passion for supernatural novels, provides Cat with a like-minded friend. A Highland Dance class, though, brings Cat a new acquaintance: Henry Tilney, a pale, dark-eyed gentleman whose family home, Northanger Abbey, sounds perfectly thrilling. As it's against the law to write a book about the Edinburgh festival without someone discovering a dead standup comedian bobbing about in the. ![]() Edinburgh initially offers no such thrills: Susie Allen is obsessed by shopping, Andrew Allen by the Fringe. A new Val McDermid, set at the Edinburgh festival. ![]() So when Cat's wealthy neighbours, the Allens, invite her to Edinburgh Festival, she is sure adventure beckons. Seventeen-year-old Catherine 'Cat' Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. ![]()
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