This is a classic that I highly recommend and can see myself returning to over time. I loved Rebecca, with its dreamy prose and atmospheric presence. I highly recommend reading a classic as a group – it’s a lot of fun and keeps you present within the story for the duration on account of all of the back and forth commentary. We threw the idea out there to others and from that point on, #rebeccabuddyread was born. In one of those chats where one thing leads to another, Tracey Allen of Carpe Librum blog and I decided to read Rebecca as a buddy read. I even bought a beautiful Folio Society edition as a means of prompting myself to get to it, but it still took me a year on from that purchase to open the cover.

Rebecca is one of those classics I have heard mentioned by book lovers time and time again, yet I’d never made the time to actually read it for myself. Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman.Īn international best-seller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.

And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

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