Robert Louis Stevenson: Catriona

Catriona is the direct sequel to Kidnapped, picking up exactly where Kidnapped ended. But while Kidnapped is an adventure story, Catriona only pretends to be one in the beginning, but ends up a romance novel. David Balfour meets Catriona, daughter of an imprisoned Highland man, and falls in love with her. Complications arise, but they get each other in the end, of course.

But before that they have to go through lots of misunderstandings, doubts, hurt pride, and what else is so typical for a first love, only more of it. This is going to the extreme in the part near the end where they both so strongly refuse each other because both think the other one doesn't want them. This is a good example for Watzlawick's axioms about communication and how everything can go wrong with it.

Altogether nice reading, charming in the aspects of young love, but not as exciting or historically interesting as Kidnapped.