Emma Thompson: Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
<p>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 <i>Northanger Abbey</i>, Emma discusses her favourite passages, characters and themes. </p> <p>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. </p> <p>Having won a BAFTA, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her screenplay adaptation of <i>Sense and Sensibility</i>, Emma Thompson has already brought Austen to the 21st Century and introduced her to a new generation. She does the same with <i>Northanger Abbey</i>, 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'. </p> <p>In contrast to <i>Sense and Sensibility</i>, Emma describes <i>Northanger Abbey</i> as a straightforward text; the perfect introduction to Austen for those new to her writing. </p>