![]() ![]() ![]() However, the final resolution of this story holds ambiguities whereas in ‘Rebecca’ the mystery is fully explained. Rather as with ‘Rebecca’ the book offers an investigation of a woman in the earlier novel this was the dead wife of Maxim de Winter this later novel investigates Philip’s cousin Rachel. Early on Ambrose’s death takes Philip to Florence and later leads to his meeting Ambrose’s widow Rachel. This is Philip Ashley who has been bought by up an older landowning relative Ambrose. However, instead of a young and naïve female narrator, we have a young, naïve and male narrator. It shares the setting and the mystery from the past. ![]() The obvious reference is Du Maurier’s earlier classic, ‘Rebecca’. There is a Gothic feel to the novel, and there are traces of the influence of the Brontë sisters. ![]() The setting is Cornwall, and the book includes descriptions of the Cornish countryside and, importantly, the coastline and the sea. The novel is set in the C19th, but offers no particular dates. It offered a romantic and mysterious story with many of her familiar features. The new film is screening daily from Friday June 6th until Thursday June 15th.ĭaphne Du Maurier published this novel in 1951. ![]()
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