April It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter It is twenty years since the inquest which famously -- and controversially -- passed a verdict of suicide Twenty years since Manderley the de Winters ancient family seat was razed to the groundBut Rebeccas tale is just beginningFamily friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel in the post It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the first page -- Rebeccas Tale -- and two pictures a photograph of Rebecca as a young child and a postcard of ManderleyA mysterious young scholar by the name of Terence Gray has also appeared in town looking for clues to Rebeccas life and death His presence causes a stir in the quiet hamlet and the tongues that had wagged about Rebecca years before now attend to the close ties Gray has formed to the Colonel and his single daughter EllieAmid the intrigues of this small coastal town Ellie Gray and the Colonel begin a search for the real Rebecca Was she the manipulative promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed or the Gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others have suggested Was her death really suicide or was it murderSally Beauman has taken Daphne du Mauriers celebrated twentieth-century classic Rebecca and crafted a compelling companion for the twenty-first century Haunting evocative mesmerizing Rebeccas Tale is for anyone who has ever dreamed of going back to Manderley.
