Blogs in July 2019

Mary Anne 23rd July 2019

‘Like its heroine the book is possessed of such unforgettably vivid charm that one is seduced’ L. S. Hilton, author of Maestra In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their...

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Rebecca 7th August 2015

Location is based on the author’s house, possibly Cornwall. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .   Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very...

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The Flight of the Falcon 1st January 1970

It’s an average life for Armino Fabbio, a tour guide. His life changes as he inadvertently becomes involved in a murder of an elderly peasant woman in Rome. He soon discovers that she was the much loved servant in...

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Jamaica Inn 1st January 1970

The scenery and setting are a crucial background to this book. Mary Yellan is to go and live on these very bleak and hostile moors at the solitary and isolated Jamaica Inn, run by the frightening and cruel drunkard,...

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Vanishing Cornwall 1st January 1970

With her son, Christian Browning, Daphne du Maurier, who lived in Cornwall for most of her life and used her knowledge of the county in her novels “Rebecca”, “Frenchman’s Creek” and “Jamaica Inn”, chronicles all aspects of this part...

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