Daphne Du Maurier At Home

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Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) is the author of Rebecca Jamaica Inn Frenchman's Creek Don't Look Now & The Birds among many others which continue to thrill & fascinate readers worldwide. The daughter of Sir Gerald du Maurier the leading actor manager of his day she grew up in a wildly imaginative ' Peter Pan' world peopled by London's leading writers & actors before arriving in Cornwall at the age of 19. The place & its people inspired her to write her first novel The Loving Spirit a work which so affected a young major in the Grenadier Guards later Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning that he travelled to Fowey in his boat Ygdrasil to meet
- & eventually to marry
- the author. This bewitching evocation of place was to remain a feature of Daphne du Maurier's writing & the source of much of her enduring popularity. Hilary Macaskill explores the homes & landscapes of Daphne du Maurier's life & how these relate to her work in sometimes unexpected ways. Generously illustrated with little-seen material from the family archive as well as new colour photographs this is a book which will enrich & transport anyone who has ever lost themselves between the covers of a Daphne du Maurier novel.