My Cousin Rachel
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4.2 • 61 Ratings
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Publisher Description
DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION
'Du Maurier is mistress of the sleight of hand in fiction . . . brilliantly, marvellously chilling' MAGGIE O'FARRELL
'Moody and unnerving' GILLIAN FLYNN
'Sinuous and undeniably feral' JULIE MYERSON
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'Every day, haunted still by doubt, I ask myself a question which I cannot answer.
Was Rachel innocent or guilty?'
Philip Ashley has been raised by his cousin Ambrose as heir to his beautiful Cornish estate. But this close-knit world is shattered when Ambrose travels to Florence, where he unexpectedly falls in love and marries - only to die of a strange illness. Before long, his beautiful, mysterious widow arrives in England - and despite himself, Philip is caught in her spell. But is Rachel a victim, a saviour - or a murderess?
Du Maurier is a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile' NEW YORK TIMES
'Du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We got completely absorbed into Daphne du Maurier’s gothic thriller, which is now a Hollywood film starring Rachel Weisz. Set on a large 19th-century Cornish coastal estate, this dark novel of poison and deceit centres around whether the enigmatic Rachel Ashley has killed her husband, Ambrose, in cold blood. Ambrose’s cousin, Philip, is determined to unravel this thorny plot; we delighted in sifting through red herrings, fragmented letters and suspicious eyewitness accounts at his side. Du Maurier’s sharp satirisation of male dominance makes this novel feel as relevant as it is suspenseful.
