I love Daphne du Maurier. The House on the Strand, My Cousin Rachel, Rebecca, especially Rebecca. This collection of short stories is incredible.
I
had kind of assumed that this collection would mostly be horror stories
based on the title story, "The Doll," which is fairly chilling, but
most of these stories, the strongest in fact, are about the rise and
fall of relationships. A man and woman on a romantic holiday during
which feelings change drastically between the ride there and the ride
back, a series of letters that reveal the intensity and decline of an
affair, it's all so painfully honest and so true to life. She totally
captures the odd balance of power that begins and ends relationships.
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