Title: The Rebecca Notebook: and Other Memories
Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd
Copyright: 1938
Language: English
Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd
Copyright: 1938
Language: English
Genre: Classics Fiction Mystery Gothic Romance Historical Fiction Thriller Horror Mystery Thriller
Shelving Location: Fiction / Story Books
Dewey Decimal Classification: 823
Writing Style: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Narration: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Cover/Title: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Concept: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Review:
Rebecca - a complete page turner.
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again … It seemed to me I stood by the iron gates leading to the drive and for a while I could not enter, the way was barred to me..” - the famous opening lines from the book sets the perfect tone to read the book. The protagonist reminisces her days as a newly married bride of a wealthy man and staying in the ghostly mansion across the Cornish coast. Here she comes face to face with a fact that she is the second wife of her husband. His first wife although dead is kept alive in the house by a one Mrs. Danvers. Her presence is felt everywhere - the letters, the elegant suite, the clothing, the books...almost everywhere. At one point she learns that Rebecca drowned in her small boat. She becomes aghast as she comes across an important but unbelievable truth - Rebecca was an extremely efficient sailor. As the protagonist tries to unravel one mystery after the other, she gets all the more entangled with Rebecca. As the probe into Rebecca's death continues, the drowned boat is recovered, a note is found and ....
Is Rebecca still alive?
Read the book to find out more.
A bestseller which has never gone out of print, Rebecca sold 2.8 million copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965. It has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen, including a 1939 play by du Maurier herself, the film Rebecca (1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the 2020 remake directed by Ben Wheatley for Netflix.
