Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Utterly superb. I saw the film decades ago - and thanks to my 'mid-life memory', I'd completely forgotten how it turned out. What a blessing! It's such a shocker - time after time as revelations about the never-seen Rebecca come to light.
So interesting too that the second Mrs de Winter is never given a first name - this simple device lends the entire book a sense of shadowy uncertainty.
Perhaps this is one of the earliest psychological thrillers (1938) - although that genre designation wasn't really in common use in bookshops and libraries at the time.
A must-read for any author who writes suspense about hidden motives and misguided assumptions. Let me re-phrase that - a must-read for any reader!
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