Description
On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband’s home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread.
Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realises that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow.
Sarah TURNER (verified owner) –
It is very rare that I read a book and as I turn the last page immediately want to read it all over again.
For years I’ve seen Rebecca constantly come up on people’s “best books ever” lists and I’d dismissed it as a dull, worthy, overrated literary classic. How wrong I was! This has everything I want in a book. Great characters, brilliant settings from Monte Carlo to Cornwall, a house that is a character in itself, and a plot that twists and turns and keeps you guessing throughout. Loved it all.
Sarah McKinlay –
I got this as a Secret Santa from Bert’s Books. I hadn’t read it since school, although I have seen a couple of theatrical adaptations over the years.
Well, Rebecca certainly is a classic, beautifully written scenes with a menacing undertone cutting through seemingly idyllic scenes of a Cornish summer. Superb.