Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen’s thrilling tale of an ordinary young lady whisked away from her ordinary village home to make her entrance into society in Bath. Faux friendships and real romances together with social commentary and gentle humour are skilfully threaded through this English classic.

Catherine Morland loves a good novel and the more horrid it is the better. At 17, she is taken by her aunt to Bath where she encounters the social whirl denied her at home. When Catherine accepts an invitation to the Tilney’s country seat at Northanger Abbey, lurid images from her favourite gothic novel Mysteries of Udolpho threaten to overwhelm her. However, all misunderstandings are eventually resolved and, as in all the best Jane Austen novels, the young heroine finally gets her man…