![]() ![]() ![]() The second book is Rebecca’s Tale by Sally Beauman, published in 2001. However, with her own skilled storytelling and using strands from Daphne du Maurier’s original Rebecca Notebook, Susan Hill brings the story to a devastating conclusion. In Mrs de Winter Susan cleverly brings Maxim and his wife back from exile where the second Mrs de Winter believes happiness can be found at last. Susan Hill is a hugely successful author in her own right and is probably best known for The Woman in Black. The first is the sequel, Mrs de Winter, written by Susan Hill and published in 1993. Two novels really can claim to be companion books to Rebecca and are both worth reading. Rebecca is the classic gothic retelling of the Cinderella story and it could be said that, in writing it, Daphne was herself reworking Jane Eyre. Mrs de Winter by Susan Hill and Rebecca’s Tale by Sally BeaumanSince Daphne du Maurier’s most well-known novel Rebecca was published in 1938 many people have tried, with varying degrees of success, to imitate or continue the story. ![]()
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