In all of the novels I’ve read by Daphne du Maurier, the narrator was an outsider who had to make her way in a place with decades of secrets to be penetrated. There is an outsider in My Cousin Rachel, but our narrator is very much an insider. Philip Ashley was raised by an older cousin and a staff m...
Philip´s uncle Ambrose has died while being on an extensive stay in Italy. Philip can´t believe that his uncle has died of natural causes. He much rather believes that his cousin Rachel, who recently married Ambrose, has caused the death of his beloved uncle and revenge is on his mind. It´s been a...
3.5 Stars Having loved Rebecca I wanted to read another novel by Daphne Du Maurier and My Cousin Rachel was next on my list and delighted to say that it doesn't disappoint and has a certain , je ne sais quoi about it that had me intrigued.Written in 1951 this novel is a mystey-romance style novel th...
Ambrose Ashley, Phillip’s beloved guardian and cousin, goes off to the Continent for health reasons, and there he meets and marries a distant cousin, Rachel, and they settle at her villa in Rome. Everything seems to go well at first, but later Ambrose becomes sick, and his letters carry hints of par...
bookshelves: historical-fiction, mystery-thriller, classic, re-read, spring-2011, published-1951, re-visit-2014, film-only, paper-read, fraudio, gothic, victoriana, fradio, cornwall, britain-england Read from March 19, 1973 to February 22, 2014, read count: 3 Bettie's BooksNow for the film with ...
My second du Maurier’s novel after Rebecca; and it did not disappoint.The plot was Philip, an orphan, raised by his uncle, Ambrose. The boy grew up with little to no contact with female; his uncle didn’t even keep female servant in the estate. His only female companion was possibly his childhood fri...
I'm a pretty harsh critic of ambiguity in fiction. All too often it's done as a cop-out, loose plot threads left hanging due to authorial laziness or inadequacy. Why do the work of crafting a coherent plot when you can just leave things vague and call it artsy? But there are some authors who do ...
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