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Daphne

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A love story and a literary mystery - a true story of Daphne du Maurier
'A divine treat for lovers of literary mysteries' The Times

'Compulsively readable ... elegant and absorbing ... Daphne takes the reader on a journey of undiluted pleasure' Spectator
It is 1957. As Daphne du Maurier wanders alone through her remote mansion on the Cornish coast, she is haunted by thoughts of her failing marriage and the legendary heroine of her most famous novel, Rebecca, who now seems close at hand.
Seeking distraction, she becomes fascinated by Branwell, the reprobate brother of the Brontë sisters, and begins a correspondence with the enigmatic scholar Alex Symington in which truth and fiction combine.
Meanwhile, in present day London, a lonely young woman struggles with her thesis on du Maurier and the Brontës and finds herself retreating from her distant husband into a fifty-year-old literary mystery...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 17, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9781408806838
  • Release date: August 17, 2009

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781408806838
  • File size: 676 KB
  • Release date: August 17, 2009

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Kindle Book
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subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

A love story and a literary mystery - a true story of Daphne du Maurier
'A divine treat for lovers of literary mysteries' The Times

'Compulsively readable ... elegant and absorbing ... Daphne takes the reader on a journey of undiluted pleasure' Spectator
It is 1957. As Daphne du Maurier wanders alone through her remote mansion on the Cornish coast, she is haunted by thoughts of her failing marriage and the legendary heroine of her most famous novel, Rebecca, who now seems close at hand.
Seeking distraction, she becomes fascinated by Branwell, the reprobate brother of the Brontë sisters, and begins a correspondence with the enigmatic scholar Alex Symington in which truth and fiction combine.
Meanwhile, in present day London, a lonely young woman struggles with her thesis on du Maurier and the Brontës and finds herself retreating from her distant husband into a fifty-year-old literary mystery...

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