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Northanger Abbey

In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.

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Main Author:	McDermid, Val (Author)
Other Authors:	Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Grove Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Morland, Catherine > (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Children of clergy > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Interpersonal attraction > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. Edinburgh (Scotland) > Fiction. Romance fiction > England. Gothic fiction. Satirical literature.
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Summary:	In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
Item Description:	"First published in Great Britain in 2014 by The Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"-- Title page verso.
Physical Description:	343 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9780802123015 0802123015
Author Notes:	Val McDermid was born in Scotland on June 4, 1955. She was the first student from a state school in Scotland accepted to read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She graduated in 1975 and became a journalist. She wrote her first novel at the age of 21. It didn't get published, but she turned it into a play entitled Like a Happy Ending. It was performed by the Plymouth Theatre Company and was later adapted for BBC radio. Her first book, Report for Murder, was published in 1987. She is the author of the Lindsay Gordon Mystery series, the Kate Brannigan Mystery series, and the Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries series as well as several stand alone books including The Distant Echo, A Darker Domain, Trick of the Dark and Out of Bounds. The Mermaids Singing won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. (Bowker Author Biography)