The Bride of Northanger: A Jane Austen Variation by Diana Birchall
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Bride of Northanger, is a sequel to Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey.
Catherine Morland has been engaged to Henry Tilney for the past year. A year older and due to her new reading habits, wiser and more steady. Though she still is of a curious nature.
On the eve of their wedding at the family home in Fullerton, Henry relates the curse of the Tilney family as it relates to the wife of the eldest son.
It is when the happy couple visit Northanger soon after their wedding that strange events occur, plus at least one death.
We are introduced to new characters including Eleanor’s husband Viscount Charles Eastham plus the re-introduction of some of the original from canon.
So this well-written delightful book is a mixture of the gothic, mystery and romance. A very enjoyable read.

Easily 4 out of 5 stars (I only give 5 stars for books that are a re-read that I have enjoyed again)


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