Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Everyone seems to have read this book in the last year, owing no doubt to its film adaptation remake starring Armie Hammer. I figured I would give it a go and see if it lived up to the hype. Rebecca is the story of an unnamed young woman who marries the mysterious and wealthy Maxim de Winter and is swept away to his English mansion Manderley. Maxim's previous wife Rebecca died a few months before this second marriage for Maxim, and the book chronicles the new Mrs. de Winter's struggle with Rebecca's memory. Mrs. de Winter's real first name is never revealed, an interesting and obvious choice for Du Maurier to make, causing her to be a shadow, a ghost herself living at Manderley, always imagining conversations and scenarios, afraid to truly live herself. She is set against her husband's stoic silence and the indomitable housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, who would love nothing more than to sabotage the marriage and to ruin Maxim's life. Thr...