Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier & her sisters eclipsed by her fame are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography. The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time author of ' Rebecca' ' Jamaica Inn' & ' My Cousin Rachel' & short stories ' Don't Look Now' & the terrifying ' The Birds' among many. Her stories were made memorable by the iconic films they inspired three of them classic Hitchcock chillers. But her sisters Angela & Jeanne a writer & an artist of talent had creative & romantic lives even more bold & unconventional than Daphne's own. In this group biography they are considered side by side as they were in life three sisters who grew up during the 20th century in the glamorous hothouse of a theatrical family dominated by a charismatic & powerful father. This family dynamic reveals the hidden lives of Piffy Bird & Bing full of social non-conformity love rivalry & compulsive make-believe their lives as psychologically complex as a Daphne du Maurier novel.