Catherine Morland has read enough Gothic novels to know that life is full of dark secrets, sinister villains, and dramatic twists. At seventeen, Catherine arrives in Bath for her first taste of society — the ballrooms, the gossip, and the altogether thrilling Henry Tilney, who is charming, witty, and nothing like a Gothic hero. When an invitation to Northanger Abbey arrives, Catherine’s imagination runs gloriously, disastrously wild.
The truth, when it comes, is far more complicated and far more mundane than any novel prepared her for. Austen’s cheekiest novel. A love story about learning to see the world and the people in it as they actually are.