Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier
5 Stars
Classic
Setting: England
441 pages
Published 1938

Ellie's Review
I absolutely love this book! It reminded me of Jane Eyre since it's a romantic suspense novel set in the past.

Book Summary
Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers.