I had only read Du Maurier’s better known books before (Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn) so wondered if her lesser known ones would be as gripping. This perhaps wasn’t as foreboding and as full of unseen menace as Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel, but it was gripping and dramatic never-the-less and a […]
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Loading ...Daphne Du Maurier is such an incredible writer – there is no-one else that manages to create such a feeling of dread and foreboding and ill-ease in books as she! I find myself turning a page and then involuntarily scanning to the end before I read it, just to find out in advance if […]
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