Daphne, A Novel about the author of Rebecca by Justine Picardie

Daphne, A Novel about the author of Rebecca by Justine PicardieDaphne, A Novel about the author of Rebecca by Justine Picardie

Daphne, A Novel about the author of Rebecca by Justine Picardie

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A haunting novel that illuminates the true story of Daphne du Maurier's fascination with the Brontes: a tale of madness, theft, romance, and literary archaeology. Drawing on Justine Picardie's own extensive research into Daphne du Maurier's obsession with the Brontes and the scandal that has haunted the Bronte estate, Daphne is a marvelous story of literary fascination and possession; of stolen manuscripts and forged signatures; of love lost and love found.

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  • Daphne, A Novel about the author of Rebecca by Justine Picardie HCDJ
  • Author: Justine Picardie
  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (August 5, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-13: 9781596913417
  • Genre: Fiction
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A haunting novel that illuminates the true story of Daphne du Maurier’s fascination with the Brontes: a tale of madness, theft, romance, and literary archaeology. Drawing on Justine Picardie’s own extensive research into Daphne du Maurier’s obsession with the Brontes and the scandal that has haunted the Bronte estate, Daphne is a marvelous story of literary fascination and possession; of stolen manuscripts and forged signatures; of love lost and love found; of the way into imaginary worlds, and the way out again. Written in three entwined parts, the novel follows Daphne du Maurier herself, the beautiful, tomboyish, passionate author of the enormously popular Gothic novel Rebecca, at fifty and on the verge of madness; John Alexander Symington, eminent editor and curator of the Brontes’ manuscripts, who by 1957 had been dismissed from the Bronte Parsonage Museum in disgrace, and who became Daphne’s correspondent; and a nameless modern researcher on the trail of Daphne, Rebecca, Alexander Symington, and the Brontes. Haunting and gorgeously written, Daphne is a breathtaking novel that finally tells, in the most imaginative of ways, what Bronte biographer Juliet Barker has called “the last great untold Bronte story—and perhaps the most intriguing.”

About the Author
Justine Picardie is a journalist, novelist, and editor. She is the author of My Mother’s Wedding Dress, If the Spirit Moves You, and Wish I May, and the co-writer or editor of several others. She was formerly the features editor of British Vogue and editor of the Observer magazine. She lives in London.

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Daphne, A Novel about the author of Rebecca by Justine Picardie
Daphne by Justine Picardie
Daphne, A Novel about the author of Rebecca by Justine Picardie

Daphne, A Novel about the author of Rebecca by Justine Picardie
Daphne by Justine Picardie
Daphne, A Novel about the author of Rebecca by Justine Picardie