My Cousin Rachel

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'Du Maurier is mistress of the sleight of hand in fiction . . . brilliantly, marvellously chilling' Maggie O'Farrell

'Moody and unnerving' Gillian Flynn

'Sinuous and undeniably feral' Julie Myerson

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'Every day, haunted still by doubt, I ask myself a question which I cannot answer. Was Rachel innocent or guilty?'

Philip Ashley has been raised by his cousin Ambrose as heir to his beautiful Cornish estate. But this close-knit world is shattered when Ambrose travels to Florence, where he unexpectedly falls in love and marries - only to die of a strange illness.

Before long, his beautiful, mysterious widow arrives in England - and despite himself, Philip is caught in her spell. But is Rachel a victim, a saviour - or a murderess?

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