Review: The Heiress of Northanger Abbey

I’m a sucker for meta-fiction, which reflects back on itself like a mirror within a mirror. So when someone comes along with a sequel to Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey which, rather than satirizing the gothic novel, embraces it, validating all Catherine Morland’s forbidding fantasies—I’m all in. (If you haven’t read the original, Wikipedia sums it up as a coming-of-age story and a satire of the…