The Du Mauriers
On sale
7th January 2010
Price: £10.99
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA.
‘Miss du Maurier creates on the grand scale . . . observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here’ OBSERVER
‘It is my pick of the Spring biographical material for sheer entertainment value . . . a gifted story teller’ KIRKUS REVIEWS
‘Daphne du Maurier has no equal’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
When Daphne du Maurier wrote this book she was only thirty years old and had already established herself both as a biographer with the acclaimed Gerald: A Portrait and as a novelist. Here, she further explores her fascinating family history.
The Du Mauriers was written during a vintage period of her career, between two of her best-loved novels: Jamaica Inn and Rebecca.
Her aim was to write her family biography ‘so that it reads like a novel’ and it was due to du Maurier’s remarkable imaginative gifts that she was able to breathe life into the characters and depict with affection and wit the relatives she never knew, including her grandfather, the famous Victorian artist and Punch cartoonist – and creator of Trilby.
‘Miss du Maurier creates on the grand scale . . . observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here’ OBSERVER
‘It is my pick of the Spring biographical material for sheer entertainment value . . . a gifted story teller’ KIRKUS REVIEWS
‘Daphne du Maurier has no equal’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
When Daphne du Maurier wrote this book she was only thirty years old and had already established herself both as a biographer with the acclaimed Gerald: A Portrait and as a novelist. Here, she further explores her fascinating family history.
The Du Mauriers was written during a vintage period of her career, between two of her best-loved novels: Jamaica Inn and Rebecca.
Her aim was to write her family biography ‘so that it reads like a novel’ and it was due to du Maurier’s remarkable imaginative gifts that she was able to breathe life into the characters and depict with affection and wit the relatives she never knew, including her grandfather, the famous Victorian artist and Punch cartoonist – and creator of Trilby.
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Reviews
Daphne du Maurier has no equal
It is my pick of the Spring biographical material for sheer entertainment value - and Daphne du Maurier is a gifted story teller, and makes no bones about the shortcomings of her own forebears, albeit she does it with a sympathetic - at times a tender - touch
Miss du Maurier creates on the grand scale; she runs through the generations, giving her family unity and reality . . . a rich vein of humour and satire . . . observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here
One of the last century's most original literary talents
