'The dark side of this most respectable suspense writer.'
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| Daphne du Maurier, The Doll: The Lost Short Stories |
Anna Mundow reviews Daphne du Maurier's
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories: 'Daphne du Maurier's best-known novel,
Rebecca, is a romantic swoon of a book that opens with the famous incantation, "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." It is also a sadomasochistic nightmare and a daring portrait of female humiliation. For du Maurier, like most thriller writers, was a literary subversive, and her fiction, despite its twin-set-and-pearls decorum, presents an unsettling vision of sex, cruelty, and class. Now
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories provides a glimpse of that vision in the making.' [
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