Home from a family holiday in Cornwall and in the mood to re-read Daphne Du Maurier. We rented a cottage in Fowey and revisited all the old haunts: Bodinnick, Polruan, Lansallos, Par and the Menabilly estate by Polridmouth cove.I'd forgotten how much I loved it down there: the spirit of place seeps into your bones as you recall all the stories written there.
The Rebecca Notebook was the author's original outline for her famous novel and The Rebecca Epilogue, previously unpublished, takes the reader beyond the novel itself. The essays are a good read and I found Death and Widowhood particularly poignant and comforting.
'...the spirit of tenderness, of love, will not desert you. You will find that it has become part of you, rising from within yourself; and because of it you are no longer fearful of loneliness, of the dark, because death, the last enemy has been overcome.'
What an interesting woman Daphne Du Maurier was. I find myself wanting to find out more.
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