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A 2012 World Book Night selection.“
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…” is probably one of the most famous first lines from a novel and captures the readers interest immediately. What is Manderley? Why is our narrator dreaming about it? The story is relayed to us by the second Mrs de Winter who is not even given a name throughout the novel, as if to emphasise how insignificant she is compared to her predecessor, Rebecca. This book is haunting, chilling and packed full of intrigue. Who was Rebecca, why did people love her so much, was she good or evil? The narrator is constantly searching for answers to questions that no-one seems to want to answer but the truth that has been hidden for years is about to be revealed. A true classic.
If you like Daphne du Maurier you might also like to read books by Will Davenport, Sara Donati and Susan Howatch.
Synopsis
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers . . .
Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.
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'Excellent entertainment . . . du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings’ Stephen King
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Publication date
30th January 2003Author
Daphne du MaurierMore books by Daphne du Maurier
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Author's Website
www.dumaurier.org/Publisher
Little, Brown Book GroupFormat
Paperback448 pages
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Thriller / SuspenseFamily DramaLiterary FictionReading GroupseBook Favourites
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)ISBN
9781844080380Lovereading - a community of people passionate about reading and sharing their views. An incomparable website for book lovers.
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