Northanger Nights
JJ Feild as Henry Tilney
Henry Tilney has quite a following, it seems, on both sides of the Atlantic - so I will be taking extra care with my modern version. At this stage I envisage him as more of a Mark Knightley than a Rick Wentworth, although there’ll definitely be a ‘dark’ side to him …
And Catherine? Unlike the original, she won’t be 17 years old during the story. We’ll meet her at that age in the prologue, but the rest of Northanger Nights will take place when she’s 21. It’s a case of getting the balance right between her being young enough to find the big bad world an eye-opener, but not too young for the heroine of an adult fiction novel.
I read Northanger Abbey again recently and found it hugely enjoyable and really funny. Follow that, as they say!
You can see another photo of JJ Feild here.
