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As a famous classic novel, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey has been adapted a number of times. This novel is one such adaption, where Val McDermid has reimagined the characters in a Scottish landscape. • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022. A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH. AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 OPEN BOOK. ‘Accomplished, immersive and profoundly satisfying’ Cathy Rentzenbrink ‘Effortlessly resonant … breathes rich imaginative colour in her characters’ Daily Telegraph From the million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ONE INJUSTICE THAT WILL SHATTER THEIR BOND FOREVER. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own dreams they must fight to realise – but it is Johnny who makes the terrib • This week, celebrated crime writer Val McDermid is back with something different: a new look at Lady Macbeth… 1. Fast By The Horns bygd Moses McKenzie is published in hardback by Wildfire, priced £20 (ebook £9.99). Available May 9 Following on from his outstanding debut novel An Olive Grove In Ends, Moses McKenzie’s second book sees him remain on home turf in the West Indian communities of Bristol. Here he turns the clock back to 1980, when the lives of those in St Paul’s are made harder by the racism of the police and the neglect of the city council. In an environment where the locals have competing visions of how to kamp the forces raging against them, 14-year-old Jabari comes of age trying to make sense of his Rastafari faith and the lessons of his father, community leader Ras Levi. Taught the bible story of Abraham and Isaac, Jabari faces his own tests of faith and loyalty as violence descends on the community. McKenzie’s beautiful pros
To add context to my review, I've never read the original Jane Austen novel and have no preconceptions about what the characters or story "should" be.
At first I enjoyed following along with sweet-natured bookworm Cat Morland as she packed her bags and headed off to Edinburgh. Her first naive encounters with big city life had me on her side, although the mentions of Facebook and Twitter came off as somewhat stilted. It was all going okay until, like an anvil, the author drops in the fact that Cat is a Twilight fan.
What's the problem with this? It's that Twilight is polarizing, something that people tend to either love or hate. It's a real-world topic that people get passionate and heated about.
And that's a problem! Cat's enjoyment of Twilight is just meant to be an example Novels
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