Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
A beautiful hardback edition to mark the 80th anniversary of one of the best-loved novels ever written. A gothic tale of love,secrets and jealousy.
With a new introduction by Sarah Perry
Working as a lady's companion,the orphaned 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.
Whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to his brooding estate,Manderley,on the Cornish Coast,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 been out of print,Rebecca is the haunting story of a young woman consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.
'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...Rebecca is one of the underrated classics of the 20th century...Rebecca is a masterpiece in which du Maurier pulls off several spectacular high-wire acts that many great writers wouldn't attempt'- Jim Crace, Guardian
You always feel that we're on the verge of a Daphne du Maurier renaissance. Known of course forRebeccaandJamaica 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 taleDon't Look Now.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349010267Number of pages: 448Weight: 646 gDimensions: 218 x 145 x 39 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Her masterpiece...Seldom has a dead woman exercised such power beyond the grave. Rebecca will live for ever because du Maurier touches a fearful nerve,buried deep in the unconscious'- Kate Saunders,The Times
'Addictive and breathtaking. Its blending of melodrama and subtlety is ingenious. The Cornish setting never quite leaves the imagination.'- Independent
'A mesmerising novel which reveals more on each reading.'- Helen Dunmore
'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...Rebecca is one of the underrated classics of the 20th century...Rebecca is a masterpiece in which du Maurier pulls off several spectacular high-wire acts that many great writers wouldn't attempt'- Jim Crace, Guardian
'Excellent entertainment...du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings.'- Stephen King
'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. A stunning book.'- Sarah Waters
'With one of the most evocative first lines ever,Daphne du Maurier's fifth novel has everything a reader could ask for...Psychologically astute and disturbingly romantic,Rebecca was an immediate bestseller on publication in 1938 and has cast a sinister spell ever since.'- Marie Claire
Daphne Du Maurier
Visit the Daphne Du Maurier author pageSarah Perry
In three novels - After Me Comes the Flood,The Essex Serpent and Melmoth - the Chelmsford-born Sarah Perry has boldly established herself at the front rank of British novelists,wielding an acute sense of place and history with a wildly irrepressible energy. Now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,Sarah Perry's landmark gothic fantasy The Essex Serpent was awarded the Waterstones Book of the Year for 2016.
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