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Daphne du Maurier is a master of horror, and Rebecca is full of dread and emptiness, as well as compelling relationships. Manderley first appears to us in a nightmare and remains nightmarish. It’s so clear in my mind, like the house on fire in Jane Eyre. Sally
Everyone knows that Maxim de Winter was obsessed with his glamorous wife – and devastated by her tragic death. So when he proposes to a shy, anxious young woman after a whirlwind meeting in the South of France, no one is more surprised than the new bride herself.
But when they reach Manderley, his beautiful, isolated Cornish mansion, the second Mrs de Winter begins to realise that every inch of her new home – and everyone in it – still belongs to Rebecca.