5/20/2023 0 Comments My cousin rachel book endingThe narrator is Philip Ashley, who at the beginning of the novel lives alone on the Cornish coast on the estate of his guardian Ambrose. A bit ramshackle, no question, no one’s going to say it’s her best, but it’s absolutely worth reading.Īnyway, I recently spent a few pleasant evenings reading My Cousin Rachel, an earlier novel (1951) that is often reckoned as one of her best. Rule Britannia is a late work, with more than a touch of The Tempest in it. A once-famous actress features prominently she turns out to have one more great role in her. I also enjoyed her final novel, Rule Britannia (1972), a strange and compelling little book that I suspect was greeted with bemusement or even hostility at the time but that is uncannily prescient now: England has left the EEC and is on the brink of financial ruin (sound familiar?) and is taken over by the US. The Scapegoat, which I wrote briefly about, is the best of the lot-a completely satisfying book likely to feature in my year-end list. This year I read three novels by Daphne Du Maurier.
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