JUSTINE PICARDIE’S “Daphne,” which focuses on Daphne du Maurier’s life in crisis as she turns 50 and prepares to celebrate her silver wedding anniversary, is an engrossing and absorbing ...

French novelist Tatiana de Rosnay (Sarah's Key) can’t stop dreaming of Manderley. She’s a lifelong fan of Daphne du Maurier’s novels, especially 1938’s Rebecca, with its British manor ...

Rebecca was the first work du Maurier published after nabbing a three-book deal with a fat £1,000 advance (about $88,000 U.S. today). But though she had ample time to write, the story didn’t ...

Thought not, but you should because Daphne Du Maurier’s original story is superior and creepier in every way. ... Psycho was minimalism to maximum effect, but it was also a one off.

Dame Daphne du Maurier, the English novelist who died in 1989, was fascinated by her French heritage. The author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn had been brought up on tales of an aristocratic ancestor ...

Daphne du Maurier. Photo: Getty Images. Tatiana de Rosnay tells us that, at the age of 11, when she first opened a copy of “Rebecca,” she “had no idea how important that novel would become ...

Publisher Harper is promoting British writer Deborah Lawrenson's novel as being in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier. The comparison may be an irresistible draw for fans of du Maurier, who died ...

Why Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is still popular 80 years on. Once dismissed as a mere ‘love story’, Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ has haunted and transfixed generations of readers.

Daphne du Maurier circa 1947. | Ben van Meerendonk, AHF, IISG, Amsterdam // Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Du Maurier struggled with a serious case of writer’s block when she began writing ...

Psycho was minimalism to maximum effect, but it was also a one off. ... Thought not, but you should because Daphne Du Maurier’s original story is superior and creepier in every way.

"Daphne du Maurier came here to get a sense of place for the opening of her book," says the current Anglo-French owner Mary Buisson, herself a fan of the author. "We used to read her books under ...