Northanger Abbey

A pity - after having greatly enjoyed Anne Tyler's Vinegar Girl I was curious to see if the other Classic rewrites in a modern context would be as much fun. But Val McDermid stuck to the Austen setup way too rigidly. This is a rather boring tangle of teenage love stories. And hey, a girl who has never been to school and who has never even left Dorset in 2016? The characters are flat and dull. I quit half way through.