Summary
On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page - Rebecca’s Tale - and two pictures: a photograph of Rebecca as a young child and a postcard of Manderley. Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea: if she ended up in the de Winter crypt, she warned, she’d come…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751533132 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0751533130 |
| Author: | Sally Beauman |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 430g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 32mm |
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The artful Sally Beauman plays extremely clever games with the staples of popular fiction, moving the pieces to make original and intriguing patterns … A hugely entertaining read, seriously romantic and with a terrific sense of atmosphere. Sally Beauman’s control of her complex material is absolute - Kate Saunders, DAILY EXPRESS
Compelling, absorbing, captivating, haunting- Sally Beauman’s most ambitious and imaginative book so far - Elaine ShowalterREBECCA’S TALE is bold and clever…In this evocative and compulsive reworking of the balance of power between the sexes, Sally Beauman steers her creation into feminist territory and succeeds in overturning our loyalties. - Elizabeth Buchan, THE TIMESOnce you start reading a Beauman book, you can’t put it down, as Rebecca’s Tale attests…I felt satisfied that she had done an extraordinary thing; she convinced me that the Rebecca of these assorted memories really was the Rebecce that du Maurier’s novel - Linda Grant, GUARDIANAbout The Author
Sally Beauman
Sally Beauman has had great critical and commercial success with all her novels: DESTINY, DARK ANGEL and the series LOVERS AND LIARS, DANGER ZONES and SEXTET have been translated into over twenty languages and have been bestsellers worldwide.
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