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Still my favourite book ever. Reread this as it had been a while, it is brilliant...
This book takes a while to get going. The first 2/5 of the book just takes forever to materialize any kind of plot.
But, once things started happening and she got to Manderley, du Maurier created a driving sense of evil surrounding Rebecca. For a character that you never see as a reader, Rebecca keeps a sense of how the past can haunt us and the idea that places can be imbued with a larger meaning. I enjoyed that Manderley seemed to be equated with Rebecca, not just in the musings of Mrs. De Wint ...more
But, once things started happening and she got to Manderley, du Maurier created a driving sense of evil surrounding Rebecca. For a character that you never see as a reader, Rebecca keeps a sense of how the past can haunt us and the idea that places can be imbued with a larger meaning. I enjoyed that Manderley seemed to be equated with Rebecca, not just in the musings of Mrs. De Wint ...more
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