Daphne Du Maurier & her Sisters The Hidden Lives of Daphne Du Maurier and her Sisters
Author(s): Jane Dunn
Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography. The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time, author of 'Rebecca', 'Jamaica Inn' and 'My Cousin Rachel', and short stories, 'Don't Look Now' and the terrifying 'The Birds' among many. Her stories were made memorable by the iconic films they inspired, three of them classic Hitchcock chillers. But her sisters Angela and Jeanne, a writer and an artist of talent, had creative and romantic lives even more bold and unconventional than Daphne's own. In this group biography they are considered side by side, as they were in life, three sisters who grew up during the 20th century in the glamorous hothouse of a theatrical family dominated by a charismatic and powerful father. This family dynamic reveals the hidden lives of Piffy, Bird & Bing, full of social non-conformity, love, rivalry and compulsive make-believe, their lives as psychologically complex as a Daphne du Maurier novel.
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Praise for Elizabeth and Mary: 'Dunn writes with captivating elegance and piercing intelligence, is tender, scrupulous, ironic and worldly' Richard Davenport-Hines, Independent 'Jane Dunn is one of our best biographers' Miranda Seymour, The Sunday Times Praise for Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy: 'Her unlayering of this complex relationship is subtle and far-reaching' The Sunday Times 'Dunn plunges deep beneath the surface to the complicated emotions and personalities of these two women, illuminating them with great clarity and understanding' Observer 'Jane Dunn's astute account of their relationship is a revealing pleasure' Independent
Described by the Sunday Times as 'one of our best biographers', Jane Dunn writes about women and their relationships, and sisters in particular. Her books include a biography of the sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and the bestseller Elizabeth & Mary, which looks at the lives of the cousin queens Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Bath with her husband the writer and linguist, Nicholas Ostler.
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : HarperPress
- : 01 March 2013
- : 240mm X 159mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 30 November 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jane Dunn
- : Hardback
- : 313
- : 823.912
- : 304
- : 45 b/w plates