Emma Thompson

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By: Robin Morgan-Bentley

Narrated by: Emma Thompson

In this interview, Emma Thompson shares her considerable insight into Britain's most influential female novelist, the great Jane Austen. Having played the narrator in an all-star-cast adaptation of Northanger Abbey, Emma discusses her favourite passages, characters and themes.

She praises Austen for her unique ability to engage the reader with universal stories of human desires, hopes and foibles, and describes her own long-standing love affair with the author, having first picked up Austen's books at the age of thirteen.

Having won a BAFTA, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her screenplay adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, Emma Thompson has already brought Austen to the 21st Century and introduced her to a new generation. She does the same with Northanger Abbey, referring to the heroine as a 'sweet girl', her love interest as a 'witty friend' and the villain of the piece as 'an absolute knob-head'.

In contrast to Sense and Sensibility, Emma describes Northanger Abbey as a straightforward text; the perfect introduction to Austen for those new to her writing.

Listen to Northanger Abbey here.

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very intriguing

loved it!! Thank you for sharing your TBR books, will be sure to purchase a few.

Wonderful interview with great ideas!

Absolutely wonderful interview with incredible suggestions for great books to read or listen to. Emma Thompson is always interesting and thought provoking.

She's Great!

Emma Thompson is a great actress, a wonderful and really interesting person. Her reading in audible is captivating. Please have her on constantly!

I love Emma Thompson make and listen to her all da

I love Emma Thompson's descriptive storytelling just always pleasant to listen to makes me intrested in Jane Austin novel which I have never been before

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it was ok. nothing exciting or to recommend about it but not bad. definitely not what i was expecting it to be.