![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel, as we discover, has the whip hand, the shady accomplice (Rainaldi), the greed and profligacy to lead her to adopt desperate measures, and the means by which to dispose of unwanted men. His head is turned, and he shows himself as variously rash, foolish, impetuous, petulant, immature and vulnerable. Philip's feelings about Rachel, the widow of his cousin Ambrose who has brought him up and been his companion, corkscrew from imagined hate and despising to surprised tolerance and then love - of a sort. Those are the bare bones of Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel, the story of Philip Ashley and his eponymous relative, a book with a subtle atmosphere of unease which creates in the reader a sense of foreboding and a desire to wrest the central character from a fate largely of his own making. Cornflower Blues - books of the year (22)Ī Cornish manor house sometime in the nineteenth century an almost exclusively male, inward-looking world, one of contentment and routine a trip abroad with terrible consequences, and a visitor, unwelcome at first but who then becomes an object of infatuation. ![]()
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