A love story and a literary mystery - a true story of Daphne du Maurier
It is 1957. As Daphne du Maurier wanders alone through her remote mansion on the Cornish coast, she is haunted by thoughts of her failing marriage and the legendary heroine of her most famous novel, Rebecca, who now seems close at hand. Seeking distraction, she becomes fascinated by Branwell, the reprobate brother of the Brontë sisters, and begins a correspondence with the enigmatic scholar Alex Symington in which truth and fiction combine. Meanwhile, in present day London, a lonely young woman struggles with her thesis on du Maurier and the Brontës and finds herself retreating from her distant husband into a fifty-year-old literary mystery…

"A beguiling and addictive novel that weaves different strands of the literary legacy of Daphne du Maurier and the Brontë family into a superb literary thriller … it is constructed with a dazzling simplicity and draws you in uncontrollably … this all adds up to a delicious piece of literary sleuthing … a deeply involving and emotional story that beautifully conjures up the atmosphere of Daphne du Maurier’s paranoia and her discomfort with family history … This is a supremely enjoyable novel"
(Sunday Express)

A szerzőről:
Justine Picardie is the author of If the Spirit Moves You: Life and Love After Death, the novel Wish I May and, most recently, My Mother’s Wedding Dress. She is also the co-writer or editor of several other books. She was formerly the features editor of British Vogue and is now a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph Magazine and writes for Harpers Bazaar. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.