![]() ![]() ![]() When neighbours invite her to join them at the Edinburgh Festival for the summer, she encounters the lively Bella Thorpe and the latter's unsympathetic brother Johnny, who makes an unwelcome play for her. Like many of her generation, she is adept at all social media (posting selfies on Facebook), but remaining painfully unworldly. She finds real life dull, and like her Austen template finds escape in mysterious literature: not for her, however, Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Rudolfo but contemporary flesh-creepers such as the Twilight films with their deferred sex and (in a clever joke) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies her reading has her searching for the dark and menacing in everyday life. Though, there is an interesting mystery about McDermid's book not directly related to the rejigged Austen concept.Ĭat is 17-years-old, and chafes at her cocooned existence in rural Dorset with her clergyman father. ![]() She makes Austen's naive Catherine Moreland the naive Cat Moreland, a young woman obsessed with the erotic vampires of Twilight in the same way that her prototype read breathlessly about the sinister castles created by Ann Radcliffe. ![]() So how to find an equivalent for such things in a modern setting? Trollope was criticised for adding drugs and internet trolls, and it will be interesting to see if Val McDermid's newly Celtic Northanger Abbey gains favour. ![]()
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