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Introduction. Book Review: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier This is the third book by Daphne Du Maurier I have read in the last few months, alongside Jamaica Inn and Rebecca . Either case, I really enjoyed the read, especially discussing it with Michael, who is an author you might want to take a look at (new book coming out in April '18). The novel My Cousin Rachel is a story of love and separation, hypocrisy, jealousy, betrayal and death – all the elements an intense family life is made up of. Includes Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel. The first film adaptation, Henry Koster's My Cousin Rachel starring Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland, was released in 1952.Du Maurier and original director George Cukor reviewed a screenplay draft and found it unfaithful to the novel, with du Maurier declaring it "Quite desperate." 9.11.2014 - 9. books 1 & 2 of BT Sept 2014 Challenge: Classics my personal Classics 2014: 9, 10 of 14 Daphne du Maurier – “My Cousin Rachel… Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989), author of Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel, two novels of greatest relevance for our analysis, is the second daughter of the late Sir Gerald du Maurier, who was a famous English actor.Novelist, born in London, her first novel, The loving Spirit (1931), was an immediate success. 2014 2* started MY COUSIN RACHEL- I am liking this story much better and am seven chapters in. . While du Marurier's Rebecca is the wittiest (and has the best film adaption), and Jamaica Inn is the most brutal (and my favorite fiction work of 2019! A young Englishman plots revenge against his late cousin's mysterious, beautiful wife, believing her responsible for his death. . Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's best-known and bestselling novel, is the classic tale of a young woman who marries handsome widower Maxim de Winter and moves to his great house at Manderley in Cornwall, only to find that all is not as it first seems . ), My Cousin Rachel had me in knots that caused me to put the novel down because the emotion was … The former I loved, the latter…I didn’t. Daphne Du Maurier , the master of psychological intrigue, keeps the reader in constant tension throughout the story. At the very beginning of it all, my blog began with a lonely post; a book review of Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier.Nearly three years on, and my lack of reading over the years has urged me to read at least one book a month this year. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms. 1. Whereas Rebecca was a stronger plot, I think My Cousin Rachel pushes the envelope more in terms of who should we believe. Directed by Roger Michell. British author Daphne du Maurier published her tenth novel, My Cousin Rachel, in 1951.In the spirit of her classic Rebecca, it is a romantic mystery that takes place largely on an estate in Cornwall.The building up of suspense and the gothic atmosphere are comparable to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. With Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen. Find out my thoughts on the plot, and whether it lived up to Rebecca, right here…. I read “Rebecca” and “Jamaica Inn” last year and they were also page-turners, although I think I might now have exhausted the ones I can read, as I don’t like ghosty ones or anything too scary (“Jamaica Inn” was a bit scary for me). Nevertheless, critics Bosley Crowther and Leonard Maltin felt it was a worthy adaptation. SPOILERS: My Cousin Rachel is another of Daphne du Maurier’s finest works. 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