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On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. 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 Rebecca the manipulative, promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed. Or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others had suggested. The official story, the ‘truth’, has only had Maxim’s version of events to consider. But all that is about to change . . .

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REBECCA'S TALE is bold and clever...In this evocative and compulsive reworking of the balance of power between the sexes, Sally Beauman steers her creation into feminist territory and succeeds in overturning our loyalties
Elizabeth Buchan, The Times
Once you start reading a Beauman book, you can't put it down, as Rebecca's Tale attests ... extraordinary
Linda Grant, Guardian
Compelling, absorbing, captivating, haunting- Sally Beauman's most ambitious and imaginative book so far
Elaine Showalter
The artful Sally Beauman plays extremely clever games with the staples of popular fiction, moving the pieces to make original and intriguing patterns . . . A hugely entertaining read, seriously romantic and with a terrific sense of atmosphere. Sally Beauman's control of her complex material is absolute
Kate Saunders, Daily Express