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When I Met Jane Austen: Val McDermid on Suspense and Psychology in Northanger Abbey

Series 1, episode 3

Crime writer Val McDermid tells Dr Paula Byrne about her experience reading Northanger Abbey for the first time, how she originally found the heroine, Catherine Morland, frustrating but came to appreciate her and the book itself. Val explains how rewriting the novel and transposing the setting to Scotland helped her see how well Jane Austen understood psychological suspense and appreciate the way she parodied the Gothic fiction of the time

Cast (unconfirmed)

Paula Byrne