'With one of the most evocative first lines ever, Daphne du Maurier's fifth novel has everything a reader could ask for. 'One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century, Rebecca has woven its way into the fabric of our culture with all the troubling power of myth or dream. du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings.' - Stephen King Rebecca is a masterpiece in which du Maurier pulls off several spectacular high-wire acts that many great writers wouldn't attempt' - Jim Crace, The Guardian
Rebecca is one of the underrated classics of the 20th century. 'From the opening sentence - "Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again" - to the final - "And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea" - I was hooked. 'A mesmerising novel which reveals more on each reading.' - Helen Dunmore The Cornish setting never quite leaves the imagination.' - Independent Its blending of melodrama and subtlety is ingenious. Rebecca will live for ever because du Maurier touches a fearful nerve, buried deep in the unconscious' - Kate Saunders, The Times Seldom has a dead woman exercised such power beyond the grave. Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9781844080380 Number of pages: 448 Weight: 360 g Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 34 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Known of course for Rebeccaand Jamaica Inn – largely regarded, and sometimes overlooked, as ‘classics’- du Maurier was far more a properly contemporary novelist, equipped with a tremendously dark imagination: this was, after all, the writer who penned the terrifying short tale Don’t Look Now. You always feel that we’re on the verge of a Daphne du Maurier renaissance. 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. Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the 'Other Woman'. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers.
Whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to his brooding estate, Manderley, on the Cornish Coast, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. 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. Working as a lady's companion, the orphaned heroine of Rebecca learns her place. With these words a reader is swept up into a world of secrets and lies one of the most passionate, psychologically twisting and complex stories of all-time.
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
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