This is the chilling classic of a girl haunted by her own imagination and by the ghost of Rebecca de Winter. After honeymooning in Italy the dashing Max de Winter returns with his innocent young bride to Manderley, the beautiful family estate in Cornwall. Yet the former mistress' disturbing presence lingers throughout the house. Du Maurier's shy heroine is tortured by constant comparisons to the glittering socialite who was her precedessor and she is heading towards tragedy and despair when Rebecca herself appears...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER was born in London in 1907. Educated in Paris, she began writing short stories and articles in 1928. Her first novel. The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931 and her reputation was established with the novels Jamaica Inn and REBECCA. She wrote many other bestselling novels, short stories, plays and biographies, and awarded a DBE in 1969. Daphne Du Maurier died in 1989.
