6/29/2023 0 Comments Rachel daphne du maurier![]() ![]() ![]() Having already lost his heart, he is then (very willingly) initiated into sex, assuming all the time that marriage, or at least everlasting love, is on the cards. ![]() In some ways it is an age-old story, albeit with a trademark Du Maurier twist: sexually inexperienced 25-year-old becomes infatuated with someone 10 years older. I doubt there’s a phrase in the entire novel which better sums up what Daphne du Maurier is up to. In fact, revisiting this fantastically well-wrought novel of suspicions and betrayals some four decades later – and watching Roger Michell’s startlingly honest new film, starring Rachel Weisz – they might as well be lit in blazing neon. Now though, rather like its protagonist, I am also stopped in my tracks. I wonder if I even noticed these three brooding little words when I first read My Cousin Rachel as a teenager. ![]()
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