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Set in 1957, the narrative chronicles Daphne du Maurier’s solitary days in her remote Cornish mansion, her doubts over a straining marriage, and her fascination with Branwell Brontë, the rebellious brother of the Brontë sisters. Through a correspondence with the enigmatic scholar Alex Symington, lines between truth and fiction blur, leading her to confront the legends surrounding her most famous novel. In contemporary London, a young academic grapples with her thesis on du Maurier and the Brontë family, finding herself drawn into a long‑forgotten manuscript forgery that threatens to upend both her personal life and scholarly work.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Justine Picardie
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