“How many women around the world have been abandoned by their husbands. A dreary company. Lonely, faceless, stupid. And now I’m one of them. I belong to this company. Divine wisdom…” D. du Maurier
Love and separation, hypocrisy, jealousy, betrayal, and death—this is what ordinary family life is made of. It seems, nothing new. However, the master of psychological intrigue, Daphne du Maurier, keeps the reader in constant suspense throughout the story.