Rereading du Maurier’s story of relentless devastation shows how the writer anticipated some of our most pressing environmental concerns.
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It’s a very modern version which gives the female characters more agency than in previous adaptations.
A new Netflix adaptation of Rebecca stars Lily James and Armie Hammer. The novel on which it is based, first published in 1938, explores domestic entrapment.
Wild coastlines, rich folklore and a sense that it’s a place unto itself, at once England and not, has made Cornwall the ideal setting for Gothic tales.
Hidden behind a photograph of the author about to dive into the sea, the new poems give is a picture of a young writer beginning to test out her ideas.
Once dismissed as a mere ‘love story’, Daphne du Maurier’s masterpiece has transfixed generations of readers.
The revered novel’s enigmatic, modern heroine captivates and beguiles in a new blockbuster film adaptation.
