My Cousin Rachel (Virago Modern Classics)

DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION

'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

'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?