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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.

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.

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

Traces the development of the Royal Shakespeare Company from its opening in 1879 to the present and examines its productions of the classic plays of Shakespeare

The first time Rebecca set eyes on Cal Ryder, she took a dislike to him. And her dislike flared into anger at their next meeting. But on a tiny Greek island you cannot avoid people, and gradually she realised her anger had hidden a passion of a different kind... She could almost taste the danger! Now, here's trouble, Rebecca thought the day mystery author Cal Ryder invaded Paxos and took a villa on the most inaccessible part of the Greek island. Then passion flared between them in a blaze of excitement that threatened to consume them both. But Rebecca noticed something secretive and watchful in his eyes, anger even, that made her feel shed blundered into his life at the worst possible moment. Whatever Cal was involved in was unfolding at a breakneck pace, and Rebecca's reactions were confused--partly emotional, partly sensual....

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. 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.