Daphne Du Maurier - Margaret Forster • BookLikes (ISBN:0385420684)

Daphne Du Maurier

by: Margaret Forster (author)

4.00 10

Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9780385420686 (0385420684)

Publish date: September 1st 1993

Publisher: Doubleday

Pages no: 457

Edition language: English

Category:

Non Fiction, Biography, History, Biography Memoir

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The English Student rated it

10 years ago

http://theenglishstudent.booklikes.com The English Student 3.5 Daphne du Maurier - Margaret Forster

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Very readable biography of the famous novelist. It seems fairly reliable - Forster had access to the family, the letters, etc. - and on the whole very balanced (though du Maurier comes off quite well). Makes me wonder why I don't read more biography, actually - I find the whole process of resurrec...

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Kim Reads and Bakes rated it

12 years ago

http://KimR.booklikes.com Kim Reads and Bakes 4.0

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