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.
Sally Beauman is the author of the bestselling REBECCA'S TALE. First published in 1987, DESTINY is an international bestseller and has been widely translated. schovat popis
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.
On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page -- Rebecca's Tale -- and two pictures: a photograph of Rebecca as a young child and a postcard of Manderley. Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea: if she ended up in the de Winter crypt, she warned, she'd come back to haunt him. Now, it seems, she has finally kept her promise. Julyan's conscience has never been clear over the official version of Rebecca's death. Was Rebecca the manipulative, promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed. Or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others had suggested. The official story, the 'truth', has only had Maxim's version of events to consider. But all that is about to change . . .
Romantic thriller with the characters from Lovers and liars and Danger zones, featuring journalist Gini Hunter.
