Daphne
Picardie, Justine
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Deftly drawn. An accomplished retellingThe reader need not be a devotée of Branwell Brontë or Daphne du Maurier or even the Gothic genre to take pleasure in this novel; the butterflies are brightly colored and the display well-lit.Washington Post Folding biographical details of its real-life heroine, Daphne de Maurier, into a page-turning plot, Daphne is a deftly crafted literary mystery: a tale of obsession and possession, of stolen manuscripts and forged signatures, of love lost and love found.
AUTHOR BIO
Justine Picardie is the author of My Mothers Wedding Dress, If the Spirit Moves You, and Wish I May, a novel. Formerly the features editor of British Vogue and editor of the Observer magazine, she lives in London and writes a column for the Sunday Telegraph.
BOOK REVIEWS
An engrossing and absorbing readSuperbly evokedClearly Picardie has lived, breathed, eaten and drunk her heroine, absorbed her, analyzed her, understood herinvesting her portrait with an authenticity that is breathtaking.Los Angeles Times Like a du Maurier novel, mystery and gothic plotting make the novel a page-turnerA novel for anyone who loves novels.Booklist This glorious novelis a divine treat for lovers of literary mysteries.Times (London) An absolute gem of a novel.Library Journal Merging fact and fiction, all three narratives come together brilliantly in the end.More
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ISBN: 1596913401
ISBN(13-digit): 9781596913400
Dewey Decimal: 823/.92
Library of Congress: 2008014694
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 405
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