Deze auteur bouwde een vooraanstaande carrière op in de journalistiek en literatuurkritiek, won de Catherine Pakenham Award en werd de jongste hoofdredacteur van het tijdschrift Queen. Haar werk verscheen in toonaangevende Britse en Amerikaanse publicaties, waaronder The New Yorker, waar een artikel over Daphne du Maurier het idee voor haar eigen roman vanuit het perspectief van Manderley aanwakkerde. Ze schreef eerder romantische romans onder het pseudoniem Vanessa James voordat ze overstapte naar grotere werken onder haar eigen naam, waarbij ze complexe thema's en narratieve gezichtspunten verkende.
Classic / British English After the death of his beautiful wife Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to forget the past. There he meets and marries a quiet young woman and takes her back to Manderley, his family home in Cornwall. But will the memory of Rebecca destroy the new marriage?
Sally Beauman is the author of the bestselling REBECCA'S TALE. First published in 1987, DESTINY is an international bestseller and has been widely translated. schovat popis
Sally Beauman is the author of the bestselling REBECCA'S TALE. First published in 1990, DARK ANGEL is her second novel and already international bestseller which has been widely translated and contains overtones of Daphne Du Maurier. schovat popis
In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination.
If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing -- Maisie's maze -- and I hate it. I need to be informed . . .' The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an account of her family and of her village friend Daniel Nunn, a young man she idolises, whom she watches over the chasm of a class divide. But is Maisie's description of a summer idyll all it seems? This is the summer when the three sisters' lives will irrevocably, and terribly, change. The winter of 1991, in London: the now-famous portrait of the three sisters features in a major retrospective. Daniel Nunn, haunted by the vanished England of his childhood, obsessed by the three sisters and newly determined to understand what happened that last summer, pursues the ghosts of his past.
Set against the backdrop of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the narrative immerses readers in the gripping quest of Lord Carnarvon as he searches for Tutankhamun's tomb. The story is rich with atmospheric detail, bringing to life the excitement and intrigue of archaeological discovery during a pivotal historical period. Sally Beauman masterfully weaves together adventure and history, capturing the essence of a thrilling expedition that changed the understanding of ancient Egypt.
Under the tablecloth, Frances's hand reached for mine and clasped it. I knew what it meant, that clasp and the mischievous grateful glance that accompanied it: it meant I was thanked, that there were secrets here. I could accept that. I too had secrets - who doesn't? Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922 to recover from the typhoid that killed her mother, eleven-year-old Lucy is caught up in the intrigue and excitement that surrounds the obsessive hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb. As she struggles to comprehend an adult world in which those closest to her are often cold and unpredictable, Lucy longs for a friend she can love. When she meets Frances, the daughter of an American archaeologist, her life is transformed. As the two girls spy on the grown-ups and try to understand the truth behind their evasions, a lifelong bond is formed. Haunted by the ghosts of her past, the mistakes she made and the secrets she kept, Lucy disinters her past, trying to make sense of what happened all those years ago in Cairo and the Valley of the Kings. And for the first time in her life, she comes to terms with what happened after Egypt, when Frances needed Lucy most.
On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page -- Rebecca's Tale -- and two pictures: a photograph of Rebecca as a young child and a postcard of Manderley. Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea: if she ended up in the de Winter crypt, she warned, she'd come back to haunt him. Now, it seems, she has finally kept her promise. Julyan's conscience has never been clear over the official version of Rebecca's death. Was Rebecca the manipulative, promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed. Or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others had suggested. The official story, the 'truth', has only had Maxim's version of events to consider. But all that is about to change . . .
Romantic thriller with the characters from Lovers and liars and Danger zones, featuring journalist Gini Hunter.
The first time Rebecca set eyes on Cal Ryder, she took a dislike to him. And her dislike flared into anger at their next meeting. But on a tiny Greek island you cannot avoid people, and gradually she realised her anger had hidden a passion of a different kind... She could almost taste the danger! Now, here's trouble, Rebecca thought the day mystery author Cal Ryder invaded Paxos and took a villa on the most inaccessible part of the Greek island. Then passion flared between them in a blaze of excitement that threatened to consume them both. But Rebecca noticed something secretive and watchful in his eyes, anger even, that made her feel shed blundered into his life at the worst possible moment. Whatever Cal was involved in was unfolding at a breakneck pace, and Rebecca's reactions were confused--partly emotional, partly sensual....
