"Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier
It happened into my hands by chance, for it was not a book I would read on intention. At first I thought it something of an Austen-esque romance and quite boring. Inevitably, it sucked me in.. it turned out to be quite the suspence novel.
The language was really interesting - very old British. The language describing in detail the scenes of upper class daily British life made me feel a visitor to the early 20th century England. Not even a visitor, but a partaker.
Lovely book, hard to put down once you get into it. I felt like I was in my early teens again losing sleep over Agatha Christie's masterful novels.
The non-existing yet ubiquitous character of Rebecca once again made me ponder how a person can be one thing to close loved ones and a completely different thing to everybody else. If some of my friends knew what I was like with my husband, they would not believe it. On the other side, my husband knows and sees what I am like with everyone else and it sometimes upsets him that I am not that way with him. But as I said, he gets the whole me, the real me, as ugly as I may be and as great as I may be, and you just can't beat that. That's what I tell myself, anyway :)
The language was really interesting - very old British. The language describing in detail the scenes of upper class daily British life made me feel a visitor to the early 20th century England. Not even a visitor, but a partaker.
Lovely book, hard to put down once you get into it. I felt like I was in my early teens again losing sleep over Agatha Christie's masterful novels.
The non-existing yet ubiquitous character of Rebecca once again made me ponder how a person can be one thing to close loved ones and a completely different thing to everybody else. If some of my friends knew what I was like with my husband, they would not believe it. On the other side, my husband knows and sees what I am like with everyone else and it sometimes upsets him that I am not that way with him. But as I said, he gets the whole me, the real me, as ugly as I may be and as great as I may be, and you just can't beat that. That's what I tell myself, anyway :)