Frenchman’s Creek, Daphne du MaurierThis is not the typical novel that is written today. Looking at the style of the original cover, I would have turned away from it, and more’s the pity because I would have missed a book that demands an audience and perhaps a conversation about what we seek and how...
I received a copy of this book from the publishers and this is my honest opinion of the book. Dona, Lady St Columb, being bored with life at court, has escaped London, travelling to her Cornish estate, Navron. Here she enjoys lazy days and solitary evenings. Until she discovers her house has been ...
Daphne du Maurier was certainly an author who liked to challenge conventions. She did so in her most famous novel, Rebecca, and she does so again here.Frenchman's Creek tells the tale of the Lady Dona St Columb, a spoiled darling of London who decided to leave her husband simply because he is a fool...
Lady Dona St. Columb, an 18th-century aristocrat married to a baronet, flees from an over-indulgent life in London, away from tedium of King Charles II's court, to the family's house in Cornwall. Lady Dona is self-willed and obstinate, frustrated and unhappy with her life. Suffocated by her boring...
cross-posted at goodreads and the mo-centric universe. a few months of staring blankly into space means that finishing this book was a major accomplishment for me. normally, it would have been a quick read but for this cursed lack of focus.. anyway, it is a simple little romance, and i do like eni...
I only made it 46 pages in. The book reads a lot like those of [a:Inglis Fletcher|1243269|Inglis Fletcher|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1323634656p2/1243269.jpg] that I've been working through lately. But I could see every development coming a mile away and I didn't have the sense of ...
More like 3.5 Stars. I loved Rebecca, but this one didn't run as smoothly for me. Dona was very selfish and she annoyed me very quickly--though her love for her children was endearing. The ending, while more realistic for the story and the era this novel is set in, didn't work out like I'd hoped. Th...
Ahh, the longing for a more compelling, grander life, while obligations, society and internal demons make it impossible to give up your current life - or do they? - admittedly strikes a chord with me. "The sense of futility had been growing upon her for many months, nagging at her now and again like...
After reading and falling in love with Rebecca when I was a teenager, I started but failed to finish My Cousin Rachel and Jamaica Inn. I gave up on them because they weren't like Rebecca. I then gave up on du Maurier, having decided that she had only written one good novel. That was a long time ago....
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