Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
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Rebecca

Updated: 19 Aug 2020
One of the most famous novels of the 20th century. A gothic tale of love, murder and secrets.'Rebecca has woven its way into the fabric of our culture with all the troubling power of myth or dream.' Sarah Waters'The greatest psychological thriller of all time' Erin KellyWorking 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 gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.
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"When I was reading [this book] there was a part of me that was relating to that because at some point in my life I felt that way, and so I ended up writing the song 'Tolerate.'" - Taylor Swift
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