Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She divides her time between Northumberland and Cheshire.
Praise for Northanger Abbey: 'Val McDermid’s brilliant re-working
of Jane Austen’s original shows that innocent, bookish girls in
thrall to the supernatural have changed surprisingly little in two
centuries. Witty and shrewd, full of romance and skulduggery – I
loved it.'
J.K. ROWLING ‘Brilliant… I was utterly charmed by this newfangled
Austen and look forward eagerly to Alexander McCall Smith’s
Emma’
John Sutherland, Financial Times ‘Funny and brilliantly written’
Jenny Colgan, Guardian ‘Northanger Abbey is funny, clever,
subversive and Scottish. No bonnets – all brio’
JEANETTE WINTERSON ‘I picked up Northanger Abbey one evening and
didn’t stop reading until I’d finished it. It’s an exquisitely
realised tale of the uncertainty and brutality of teenage years
told with the lightness of touch and humour that Val is famous for.
Utter brilliance from McDermid’ SUSAN CALMAN ‘McDermid’s reworking
of the original novel is intelligent, amusing and well-written…
captures beautifully how it feels to be a teenager… McDermid is a
subtle and witty writer and it’s hard to imagine a better evocation
of the spirit of the original.’ THE TIMES ‘A fun rendering…
McDermid’s Abbey, with its passageways and dark corners, is
fantastic, and this novel is a lark.’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘McDermid’s
great virtue is to have made Austen’s characters seem fresh in the
way they would have been for her first readers… I can imagine Jane
herself applauding.’ SUNDAY EXPRESS ‘Note perfect… breezy, vital,
inventive… Her obvious pleasure in the task is as contagious as
Austen’s wit.’ THE SCOTSMAN Praise for The Austen Project: ‘The
Austen Project is a breathtaking tribute to Jane Austen. I can’t
wait to read the other five “updates” while being reminded to
reread, joyfully, the originals’ Washington Post
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