You always feel that we’re on the verge of a Daphne du Maurier renaissance. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity. Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the 'Other Woman'. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers. Whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to his brooding estate, Manderley, on the Cornish Coast, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Working as a lady's companion, the orphaned heroine of Rebecca learns her place. With these words a reader is swept up into a world of secrets and lies one of the most passionate, psychologically twisting and complex stories of all-time. She died in 1989 at the age of 81.Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Her other works include Frenchman’s Creek, My Cousin Rachel, Jamaica Inn, and The Birds. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.ĭaphne du Maurier was an English author and playwright, best known for her novel Rebecca. Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim’s first wife-the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs.

Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house’s current occupants. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten-a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs.

Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. “Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again…” Audiobook Length: 14 hours and 48 minutes

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