My Cousin Rachel

Du Maurier, Daphne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402217099 ISBN 13: 9781402217098

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2009

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"From the first page...the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca." -The New York Times

From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall.

Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose's beautiful English estate, is crushed that the man he loved died far from home. He is also suspicious. While in Italy, Ambrose fell in love with Rachel, a beautiful English and Italian woman. But the final, brief letters Ambrose wrote hint that his love had turned to paranoia and fear.

Now Rachel has arrived at Philip's newly inherited estate. Could this exquisite woman, who seems to genuinely share Philip's grief at Ambrose's death, really be as cruel as Philip imagined? Or is she the kind, passionate woman with whom Ambrose fell in love? Philip struggles to answer this question, knowing Ambrose's estate, and his own future, will be destroyed if his answer is wrong.

Bonus Reading Group Guide Included

Praise for Daphne du Maurier

"Miss du Maurier is... a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile. And in My Cousin Rachel she does both, with Rebecca looking fondly over her shoulder." -- New York Times

"Double-distilled readers' delight." -- Manchester Guardian

Review:

"IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD, read this thing." - Books I Done Read

"[I]t is hard to put this story down." - Bookloons.com

"[D]efinitely entertaining and suspenseful." - We Be Reading

"In 1951, du Maurier released "My Cousin Rachel" and this one is, thus far in our du Maurier reading journey, A Reader's Respite's favorite... another Sourcebook's reprint and boy, are we thankful." - A Reader's Respite

"I enjoyed reading "My Cousin Rachel". It was intriguing and suspenseful." - Cindy's Love of Books

"IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD, read this thing." - Books I Done Read

"A taut, well, written story that will no doubt grab you attention and not let it go until the very last page. " - A Lovely Shore Breeze

" I think it's safe to say that I was haunted by this Gothic Tale long after I finished the book. Grade A." - Musings of a Bibliophile

"Do you have books that as soon as you finished reading them, you were sorry the story ended?... My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier was such a book for me." - Reading Extravaganza

"[I]t is hard to put this story down." - Bookloons.com

Book Description:

* a penetrating psychological study with all the haunting power of Rebecca