Northanger Abbey

This is a ‘reimagining’ of  the Jane Austen novel, the second in a series. This may seem a strange sort of project, but the result, with the abbey now set in the Scottish Borders, a far cry from the genteel settings of Jane Austen’s original. But this novel too is great fun, which indeed is what a summer read should be. But having read it, maybe readers might return to the original model, a book which like all Jane Austen’s work retains its shocking power while entertaining.