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A charming retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey--a tale of gothic misunderstandings through Henry Tilney's eyes...

At the age of four and twenty, Henry is content with his life as a clergyman, leaving his older brother Frederick to inherit Northanger Abbey. But General Tilney is determined to increase the family's means by having all three of his children marry wealthy partners.

During a trip to Bath, Henry meets the delightful Miss Catherine Morland and believes he may have found the woman he's been looking for, although she has no great fortune. When the General takes an unusual liking to Catherine and invites her to visit the Abbey, Henry is thrilled. But just as in the Gothic novels Henry loves, not everything is as it seems...

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0425243923
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley; 1st edition (December 6, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780425243923
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0425243923
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches

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Midnight Attic Reader

Henry's Tilney's Diary

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2015

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This is Northanger Abbey from Henry Tilney’s point-of-view. The diary is divided into three parts: the first being Henry at sixteen as the family is going through the loss of the mother, the second part is the year preceding the events of Northanger Abbey, and the third and largest part follows Henry’s view of the events from the book Northanger Abbey. One of the things I liked best about this interpretation is the way Frederick is portrayed and his reasons for pursuing Isabella Thorpe directly under her fiancé’s nose. Of all of Austen’s heroines, I probably have always liked Catherine least (too naive, almost to the point of being stupid) and could never understand Tilney’s fascination with her, but I rather liked the idea that given all the artful flirts both Tilney brothers must have been exposed to over the years, that the marked contrast in Catherine would make a huge impression. I believe you could read this book without ever having read Northanger Abbey and still fully enjoy it (it contains many extensive passages from the book verbatim, in fact, I could have done with a little less). Very entertaining take on a great classic!

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JodiAnn

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Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2018

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The book was interesting enough. It wasn't amazing, but if you love Mr Tilney, you will enjoy his view of things. I did like how some characters were better explained and I loved seeing Tilney's view of everything.

I was bummed though that my booked arrived seriously bent. I tried to straighten it out, but the cover is so thin, a tear could start any moment.

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ashleyrovira

all in all quite entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2015

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There were some errors in terms of forms of address, but it was so entertaining on the whole. I especially enjoyed the characters' dialogue respecting the Gothic novels. I was also very amused by the old Viscount and his sons all being struck by the same bolt of lightening, thus enabling Mr Morris to succeed to the title. Bravo! I think Jane Austen herself would be highly diverted!

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2016

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An enjoyable read for anyone who loves Austen and wants to continue reading about her characters. There wasn't really any excitement in it. I actually found the first half of the book more interesting than the second which was after he met Catherine. I liked finding out about his childhood and would have enjoyed reading more of it.

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MVPbelle

Loved it!

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2014

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I Readed it in a weekend and absolutly enjoy it. Being able to get in the mind, thoughs and feelings of Mr Tilney, made me understand him better and more o ver un love with this hero. Thanks! And I really recomend it to ever y austen fan who wants to dig more into the novel and Mr Tilney character.

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Sherlock and Dr. Watson

Ehh

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2013

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I enjoyed this book, and it took me a couple hours to finish it. It tied together Henry's thoughts about everything nicely and I understand how he would fall in love with someone as boring as Catherine Morland. That is how I saw her in this book--too naive, too ignorant, too trusting, too shy. I suppose that is how she is supposed to look (after all, she is only a very young, very country woman), but I just didn't like it. My interpretation of Catherine was completely different than Grange's, but it seemed she fit the bill for dear Henry. It was a nice companion to Northanger Abbey, but I will probably not read it again.

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Well written

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2019

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However, the reconstruction of Captain Tilney's character is both dull and overstepping. This isn't presented as a rewrite but as showing a different point of view. And if there must be a rewrite, could it be anything other than "he's really not a bad guy, just misunderstood"?

Also, this book makes it clear the author considers Catherine to be a slow-witted idiot, as she looks "perplexed" every time Henry uses a compound sentence and pretends not to believe his over-the-top storytelling. She is caught up in his stories, not fooled by them. Catherine is naive and sometimes ignorant, but she is not portrayed as stupid in the original novel.

One more thing. Entire pages of some gothic novel are reproduced here. Several pages. I'm not certain why, but it isn't in any way related to the actual story and also is quite boring. I skipped virtually all of it. Maybe it is to provide samples of some novel that most human beings will never, never see? But if that is the case, I think one paragraph would have been the right amount.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2014

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Henry Tilney, arguably Austen's best, most complexly romantic, but less heralded male character in comparison to Darcy, is delivered a gut punch in this trite and inaccurate, mostly plagiarized and awful romp. A good portion of it is just regurgitated dialogue plagiarism and a failed and blathering novel within novel attempt (in offensive italic) of a wholly unconnected story, which I can only guess exists to honor some word count contract or author ego from a rejected, faux gothic publication treatment since it adds nothing to the storyline of Northanger through Henry's 'perspective.' The 'diary' is not even in the universe of Henry's believable, studied perspective, or close to Henry's voice, but more of an 8th grade girl's cut and paste journal entry having never actually read or comprehended Northanger (or Austen nuance) in favor of Sparknotes in time to meet a deadline? Just lazy. Yuck. The typos will astound you too. I feel my adoration in imaginative Henry Tilney motivations of Northanger Abbey is poisoned now. I wish I could unread it. The attempt could have been grand, and yes it has a few bland, sophomoric wish fulfillment sentences in it, but it does far more damage to a fan than it provides, like a ratio of 98% wreckage to 2% silly little uncharacteristic wish fulfillment. I would like to ask the author, if you loathe the Austen hero Henry so much, why did you take a paycheck to spread this rot on me, the duped reader? Ugh. Spend your hard earned funds on the 2007 Masterpiece Northanger Abbey production instead. JJ Feild delivers the best emotive Henry Tilney to be had anywhere outside Austen's actual novel and your imagination to date - with a mere head tilt, you're won. Thank me later. (Negative stars, like, minus 2).

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Ceri at Babblings of a Bookworm

Henry Tilney's possible take on the events in 'Northanger Abbey'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2015

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Amanda Grange has written a whole range of these diaries, Austen’s stories from an alternate point of view. Following a recent read of 'Northanger Abbey', it seemed a good time to see what the book may have looked like from Henry Tilney’s point of view. I’ve read a few of these diaries before, the Captain Wentworth one, which was my introduction to JAFF (Jane Austen Fan Fiction) and I followed that up by reading the Mr Darcy one. I enjoyed them both, although I felt, particularly with the Darcy one, that his character hadn’t quite been captured. I was interested to see how Austen’s most amusing hero, Mr Tilney, had been represented.

The story begins when Henry is aged 16, so about 9 years or so before the events of 'Northanger Abbey', and the author builds a picture of the family. At this time, Mrs Tilney is still alive, beloved by all her children and very much the centre of the family, although she has spells of illness. Henry’s older brother, Frederick is extremely wild. He is his mother’s darling and his father’s exasperation, and his wild behaviour is given as the reason for the fact that he, the heir to the estate, was sent into the army. Frederick is feckless with his money, and believes himself to be in love, until a rude awakening makes him realise that the woman he thought he loved was only interested in finding herself as rich a husband as possible. Frederick takes this very hard, and drunkenly warns his brother away from love:

‘Poking me affectionately in the chest, he went on, in a slurred voice, “You’re a good man, Henry, a very good man. You’re not just my brother, you’re my best friend and I love you, I do. So I will tell you something, Henry. Now listen carefully. Come closer. Closer. Never give your heart to a woman. Never, never, never. Promise me. Promise me!’

Henry and his sister Eleanor are very close. Their relationship was so lovely, with plenty of affectionate banter, and a shared love of gothic novels, which they read together. I enjoyed seeing so much of Eleanor Tilney, because in Northanger Abbey she is a lovely character and I would have liked to have seen her get a bit more page time. Here they are discussing how Henry could become suitably villainous if he were to feature in one of these novels:

“I don’t suppose I can become a rake all at once, but I will take it in stages. I will begin by making a mildly scandalous remark to the Lowrys’ governess, perhaps commenting on her shapely ankles. I will make a similar small beginning on gambling, betting five shillings on whether or not it will rain on Saturday, and proceed from there.” Eleanor laughed and ran through into the walled garden, where we were sheltered from the wind.
“You will never make a good villain,” she said. “You will have to resign yourself to being a hero.”

The theme of Henry being the hero goes throughout the novel; I thought it was wonderfully apt when you consider that Northanger Abbey opens with a discussion about Catherine’s suitability to be a heroine.

After Mrs Tilney’s death there is a break in the timeline, which picks up again a few months before the time that the Tilneys travel to Bath. Here we get the details of Eleanor’s forbidden romance, which was quite sweet. Henry approves of her choice:

‘I wondered how I felt about the idea of his becoming my brother-in-law. His gaze, as it fell on Eleanor, was rapt, and that was a point in his favour, for anyone who marries Eleanor must adore her to have my blessing.’

When we move on to Bath we have caught up to the point where the Tilneys meet with Catherine and so pick up with the opposite side of the story we already know from ‘Northanger Abbey’. There is quite a lot of Austen’s dialogue in this part, which I suppose is unavoidable, because the same scenes are being described. In NA, most of the best lines are Henry’s and here we are treated to his thoughts too.

‘Your heroine? Eleanor mouthed silently to me.
I smiled, for Miss Morland certainly had all the hallmarks of a heroine. She was sweet and innocent and honest and loving. She had a great affection for her brother. She was, for the present at least, without a mother and under the care of her mother’s friend. And if she was not presently threatened by some cruel marquis, well she was young and there was still time!’

We also see Catherine’s visit to Northanger Abbey and the part that follows her return to Fullerton from Henry’s point of view, the argument with his father, but also some resolution for Captain Tilney’s story. I thought that part was really nicely done, because not only are reasons put forward for Frederick’s behaviour, but also we see him move on and get some closure.

As I said, I’ve read a couple of other books in this diaries series, but I thought this one was most successful in terms of capturing his voice and humour. I really enjoyed seeing the close relationship between Henry and his sister, seeing the possible back story for Captain Tilney and seeing some of Eleanor’s romance. If you are a fan of ‘Northanger Abbey’ I think you’d probably enjoy this book. I certainly did, it was the type of read where I kept finding myself smiling as I read along!

The only real downside I found with this book was the formatting. I read the kindle version and I wasn’t expecting any problems in this regard, as this is a book from a long-established publisher, but the formatting wasn't great, especially at the beginning. There are many spaces missing between words and line breaks in odd places. Thankfully, the missing spaces between the words was only at the beginning of the book because otherwise it'd be unreadable, but the line break problem happens throughout the book, almost as if it had been converted to kindle from a different format and the spacing not checked, not even on the first page. There were also instances of words being incorrect that seem to have been done by a spellchecker e.g. ‘deus ex machina’ was ‘deus ex machine’ etc. I was pretty unimpressed by this, I’d expect better from a publishing house. However, I am not going to let this affect my star rating, it gets a highly enjoyable 5 star rating from me.

Gwen

Henry Tilney <3

Reviewed in France on January 6, 2015

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Comme dans tous ces journaux, j'ai une préférence pour le début qui nous permet de découvrir la jeunesse de Mr Tilney. On y apprend certaines choses très intéressantes et ça attise réellement l'intérêt. L'épilogue aussi est agréable. Découvrir la raison pour laquelle le général Tilney accepte finalement le mariage de nos deux héros est peut-être un peu tiré par les cheveux mais malgré tout, j'ai apprécié ce dénouement. Concernant la partie de Jane Austen, Amanda Grange s'en sort parfaitement et je n'ai trouvé aucun faux pas de l'auteure.

Cette auteure écrit bien. Le ton est bon et c'est un délice de pouvoir retrouver Mr Tilney et ses pensées. Le seul point négatif concerne le début de l'histoire. Henry et sa soeur lisent un roman et je le pensais inventé par Amanda Grange, sauf qu'il s'agit en fait d'une nouvelle de Mrs Radcliffe. Je trouve ça un peu dommage et j'aurai préféré une histoire de son invention mais je ne boude pas pour autant ce choix qui m'a permis de découvrir un peu les écrits d'Ann Radcliffe.

Ce roman est encore une belle découverte. En plus de connaître les pensées de Mr Tilney, on en apprend plus sur soeur mais aussi son frère. C'est un très bon moyen pour prolonger l'aventure Northanger Abbey.

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Sophie

More of Tilney's wonderful wit!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2012

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Have you ever wondered what Tilney was like when he was younger, when his mother was alive? Or have you ever wanted to know more about Eleanor romance? Or seen more into the mind of the hilarious Tilney whilst he was teasing the naive Catherine?

Well, this will answer those questions and many more besides! I was unsure about reading a story taking on the classic Jane Austen novels as I did not want them ruined. But, I am glad I took the plunge and read them as they did not ruin the originals, it gave some great background and new depth to the classic characters!

She caught Tilney's humour from the off and to see into Henry's thoughts was wonderful. Seeing more about his family gave him a great background and it was lovely to see his brother Frederick portayed as a broken hearted man rather than a scoundral!

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Jess Swann

A lire pour les fans ^^

Reviewed in France on April 10, 2013

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Ok on est dans du Amanda Grange classique. C'est donc le point de vue d'Henry sur Catherine. Sauf qu'au fond ce n'est pas que ça. C'est aussi la découverte du personnage d'Henry, qui, avons le, reste très mystérieux dans Northanger Abbey. Je n'ai pas été déçue par ce journal. J'aime vraiment beaucoup le côté insouciant de Henry présenté par JA mais j'avais envie de le comprendre. Je n'ai pas été déçue. Amanda Grange nous livre les pensées d'un Henry qui cherche à fuir les exigences de son père... J'aime la relation d'Henry et de sa soeur, leur complicité, c'est vraiment joli et bien tourné. J'aime aussi le développement de Frédérick et la manière dont son comportement avec Isabella est expliqué.A Grange réussit à justifier le statut d'héroïne de Catherine. Et rien que pour celà je l'aime. Et pour la manière dont elle anticipe la relation Henry/Catherine, dont elle prépare le lecteur à la voir comme évidence. J'ai bien aimé aussi la manière dont elle raconte la romance d'Eléanor et de Mr Morris , c'était bien mis en scène

Donc...

Les plus : Un Henry très proche du lecteur, une grosse empathie et un personnage plus transparent. Le traitement de Frederick au top. La relationentre Henry et Eleanor et surtout on comprend ENFIN pourquoi il aime Catherine.

Les moins: ................... franchement aucun hormis le fait qu'il complète parfaitement le roman de Jane en explicitant son héros. Même si l'essence sarcastique de Jane fait VRAIMENT défaut ! Et que, comme toujous Amanda Grange ne peut pas s'empêcher d'inventer un rebondissement bisounours pour que tous les personnages soient heureux à la fin !

En bref : A lire si Northanger Abbey vous a semblé incomplet et si vous êtes intrigué par Henry, qui ne pas m'a pas déçue, j'ai apprécié cette visions A lire si vous aimez voir la romance au premier plan, sachant que le côté satirique est ici clairement un peu mis de côté

Cependant j'ai aimé donc....

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Annalisa Parisi

Piacevolissima lettura

Reviewed in Italy on June 24, 2016

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Avevo già letto - in italiano - il "diario di Mr. Darcy", scritto dalla medesima autrice, e ne avevo ricavato una impressione piuttosto favorevole (pur con gli inevitabili difetti... del resto, non è pensabile che qualcuno possa raggiungere la perfezione della Austen!).
Il diario di Henry Tilney riesce - anch'esso - a rimanere piuttosto fedele all'originale (che conosco a memoria) e offre spunti interessanti sulla possibile "storia parallela" di Henry.
Adoro Northanger Abbey, ma effettivamente v'è poco spazio per l'affascinante figura del protagonista.
La Grange è brava, sebbene abbia trovato il suo Henry un po' troppo poco passionale...
Il libro non è disponibile in italiano, ma si legge benissimo anche in inglese. Ho dovuto cercare sul dizionario non più di dieci parole.
Le appassionate di Jane Austen non possono perderselo!

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