Questa autrice ha costruito una carriera illustre nel giornalismo e nella critica letteraria, vincendo il Catherine Pakenham Award e diventando la più giovane redattrice della rivista Queen. I suoi scritti sono apparsi su importanti pubblicazioni del Regno Unito e degli Stati Uniti, tra cui The New Yorker, dove un articolo su Daphne du Maurier ha acceso l'idea per il suo romanzo dalla prospettiva di Manderley. In precedenza, ha scritto romanzi rosa sotto lo pseudonimo di Vanessa James prima di passare a opere più ampie a suo nome, esplorando temi complessi e punti di vista narrativi.
L'Inghilterra è invasa da una nuova, letale droga: la "Colomba Bianca". Durante un party una ragazza muore ed un'altra sparisce con un pusher. Un insolito terzetto di investigatori - una reporter di guerra, una redattrice di moda ed un giornalista - decide di indagare sul traffico di stupefacenti, che sembra aver raggiunto anche il modo della moda.
Halley's Comet night at Winterscombe in 1910 ends with a violent death which throws a giant shadow over three generations of the Cavendish dynasty. At the centre of events is the beautiful and dangerous Constance, who casts a spell - which may be a curse - on all the sons of the family. Following the destruction of two World Wars - and the passions, deceits and hatreds of the intervening peace - it is the coruscating power of Constance's personality, and the sinister secret at the heart of her life, which will determine if Victoria, last of the Cavendishes, is to inherit happiness or misery.
Una giovane dama di compagnia in vacanza a Montecarlo; Maxim de Winter, un affascinante vedovo che le propone di sposarlo; Manderley, un'inquietante castello della Cornovaglia che sembra vivere nel ricordo di Rebecca, defunta moglie del giovane sposo, la cui inquietante presenza incombe sulla nuova coppia ogni giorno di più. Ma il racconto è soprattutto l'indimenticabile storia di una giovane donna consumata dall'amore e alla disperata ricerca della sua identità.
A steamy novel of tragedy, glamour and romance spanning 35 years and four continents. It is the story of a wealthy and notorious womanizer obsessed with a mysterious woman who is not all she seems.
In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination.
If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing -- Maisie's maze -- and I hate it. I need to be informed . . .' The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an account of her family and of her village friend Daniel Nunn, a young man she idolises, whom she watches over the chasm of a class divide. But is Maisie's description of a summer idyll all it seems? This is the summer when the three sisters' lives will irrevocably, and terribly, change. The winter of 1991, in London: the now-famous portrait of the three sisters features in a major retrospective. Daniel Nunn, haunted by the vanished England of his childhood, obsessed by the three sisters and newly determined to understand what happened that last summer, pursues the ghosts of his past.
Set against the backdrop of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the narrative immerses readers in the gripping quest of Lord Carnarvon as he searches for Tutankhamun's tomb. The story is rich with atmospheric detail, bringing to life the excitement and intrigue of archaeological discovery during a pivotal historical period. Sally Beauman masterfully weaves together adventure and history, capturing the essence of a thrilling expedition that changed the understanding of ancient Egypt.
Under the tablecloth, Frances's hand reached for mine and clasped it. I knew what it meant, that clasp and the mischievous grateful glance that accompanied it: it meant I was thanked, that there were secrets here. I could accept that. I too had secrets - who doesn't? Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922 to recover from the typhoid that killed her mother, eleven-year-old Lucy is caught up in the intrigue and excitement that surrounds the obsessive hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb. As she struggles to comprehend an adult world in which those closest to her are often cold and unpredictable, Lucy longs for a friend she can love. When she meets Frances, the daughter of an American archaeologist, her life is transformed. As the two girls spy on the grown-ups and try to understand the truth behind their evasions, a lifelong bond is formed. Haunted by the ghosts of her past, the mistakes she made and the secrets she kept, Lucy disinters her past, trying to make sense of what happened all those years ago in Cairo and the Valley of the Kings. And for the first time in her life, she comes to terms with what happened after Egypt, when Frances needed Lucy most.