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Oh man, what a slog. Not bad per se, but after two or three great first chapters I slowly started to lose interest. I managed to read about 2/3, and although some people think rating a book is bad form if you haven't finished the whole thing, I happen to think I read enough to know whether I liked it or not. I may read the rest at some point, but right now I'm done and will check out the Wikipedia plot summary. Too bad, since I really liked du Maurier's writing.
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The characters are like mice in a bag that’s slowly getting tied tighter and tighter.
Reading in Portuguese; borrowed from my mother-in-law.
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself.
A movie was made based on this book, My Cousin Rachel (2017) with Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Holliday Grainger.
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself.
A movie was made based on this book, My Cousin Rachel (2017) with Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Holliday Grainger.
My Cousin Rachel felt fairly straight-forward, to me, until it ended, after which I started to see if from a totally different angle, kind of like one of those illusion drawings in which one can see the young girl or the old woman but only one or the other until it switches. Now I can see the whole story from the point of view of an intelligent, witty, self-possessed woman who is trying to make her way in a time when women were not supposed to be these things or independent of men. I keep thinki
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