Daphne Du Maurier

An account of the conceptual and artistic development of Rebecca, personal recollections of people in her life, short stories not before published, and her poems.

In a comfortable house on a Cornish estuary lives the widowed Stella, a woman of considerable gifts and beauty who regularly rejects proposals of marriage from her sturdy neighbour Robert Hanson. Cherry, Stella's lively daughter, brings home her artist husband Evan for the first time and Stella is shocked by the bohemian incompleteness of their marriage. She finds herself attracted to Evan and soon they are passionately in love - although much is...