Daphne

If The Spirit Moves You sold 70,000 copies and Wish I May sold 25,000 copies, in hardback Daphne sold over 4,000 copies (BookScan). For fans of The Hours, Possession and Map of Love as well as Susan Hill's The Woman in Black and the novels of Daphne du Maurier Rebecca was one of the most powerful and haunting novels of the 21st Century and the Hitchcock film is a classic

A love story and a literary mystery - a true story of Daphne du MaurierIt is 1957. As Daphne du Maurier wanders alone through her remote mansion on the Cornish coast, she is haunted by thoughts of her failing marriage and the legendary heroine of her most famous novel, "Rebecca", who now seems close at hand. Seeking distraction, she becomes fascinated by Branwell, the reprobate brother of the Bronte sisters, and begins a correspondence with the enigmatic scholar Alex Symington in which truth and fiction combine. Meanwhile, in present day London, a lonely young woman struggles with her thesis on du Maurier and the Brontes and finds herself retreating from her distant husband into a fifty-year-old literary mystery.