Rebecca's Tale

Beauman, Sally

ISBN 10: 0316858129 / ISBN 13: 9780316858120

Published by Little Brown / Little Brown Book Group, London, 2001

About this Item

First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Katy, with best wishes, Sally Beauman'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some indentations to back jacket, top corners very slightly bruised, some very slight yellowing to page block. Not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 495pp. 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. A sequel for those who dreamt of going back to Daphne du Maurier's Manderley again. Scarce signed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rebecca's Tale
• Publisher: Little Brown / Little Brown Book Group, London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316858129
• ISBN 13: 9780316858120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

On the 20th anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel containing a notebook - marked "Rebecca's Tale" - and two pictures. Has she kept her word to haunt him for ending up in the de Winter crypt?

About the Author

Sally Beauman read English at Girton College, Cambridge. She worked as a journalist in America and Britain before beginning to write fiction. She is the author of six previous novels, including the acclaimed Rebecca's Tale.