On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the strikingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel through the post. 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 it really suicide, or was it murder? Was Rebecca the manipulative, promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed, or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others suggested?
The official story, the "truth", has only ever had Maxim's version of events to consider. But all that is about to change . . .
Sally Beauman has taken Daphne du Maurier's celebrated twentieth-century classic, 'Rebecca', and crafted a compelling companion for the twenty-first century. Haunting, evocative, mesmerising, 'Rebecca's Tale' is for anyone who has ever dreamt of going back to Manderley again.
