Mar 11, 2006 01:59 PM
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(Updated Mar 21, 2006 11:18 PM)
One of my most favourites…it makes for a very interesting read, written in beautiful expressive English. A beautiful story of suspense, trust, love, deceit, hate and strength…a very engrossing and captivating story. The art of story telling at its finest. You can breathe every moment of life of the character in the book. You are filled with the nervous excitement and anxiousness from the start till the end. It is difficult to leave the book down to attend to other matters…as it feels almost like changing gears and life again. No other book has talked to my heart as well as this.
Facts of the book matter and Plot Summary
Story Type : Mystery & Romance
Tone of the Book : Thoughtful, sad, lingering anxiety.
Setting : Fancy Mansions, English countryside.
Age group : Recommended to readers of age 16 yrs or above.
Ethnic/Nationality : British
A young girl from a modest background finds love in a famous heir, Mr. De Winter, much older than herself. He marries her in haste and takes her to his ancestral talk-of-the-town-mansion called the ‘Manderley’! Mr. de Winter’s first wife had died in mysterious circumstances in a boat. She was the beautiful and perfect, Rebecca. It is interesting to note that the real name of the young bride is never mentioned in the story.
While the young bride is struggling to fit in, an evil head servant Ms. Daverns makes her life miserable. Ms. Daverns has a disturbing bizarre loyalty towards Rebecca, she influences all events so as to impose the memory of Rebecca and derives sadistic pleasure out of tormenting the young bride. She can’t bear to see the young bride take Rebecca’s place, let alone belong to Manderley!
The young bride unsure and meek at first, but soon finds her spine and fights back. She unearths some secrets that change the stance of all characters in the book with respect to hers. How she transforms from a simpleton girl, whose ineptitude in handling the head servant unnerves her husband, into a matured woman who becomes the star of the hour and the only support to her husband.
A story about a simple young girl’s unquestioning love for the man she loves, of her finding her self-worth and discovering a stronger person within while fighting all odds.
If you read it once you will know that it has found home in your heart.
Happy Reading!
Dollabua
