Rebecca
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First published in 1938, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca begins with a dream of a lost home: Manderley, the great Cornish estate whose beauty and secrets haunt the novel long after its opening pages. The unnamed narrator, a shy young woman working as a companion in Monte Carlo, marries the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter and returns with him to his ancestral house, where she finds herself overshadowed by the memory of his first wife. Under the watchful gaze of the formidable housekeeper Mrs Danvers, Rebecca’s presence grows ever more powerful, shaping the atmosphere of the house and the new marriage.
Part Gothic romance, part psychological suspense, Rebecca explores jealousy, identity, memory and the unsettling authority of the past. Du Maurier’s evocative descriptions of the Cornish coast and Manderley’s grand interiors create a world in which beauty is inseparable from menace, while the narrator’s uncertainty draws the reader into her struggle to understand both her husband and herself. Frequently compared with Jane Eyre, the novel remains du Maurier’s best-known work and a defining achievement in twentieth-century Gothic fiction.
From the book
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
On Rebecca
“A brilliant piece of writing, with the atmosphere and suspense and pace that made Jamaica Inn an absorbing and thrilling story.”
— Kirkus Reviews, 1938