![]() The story of a young woman who dreams of an eerie wilderness and a grand old house, and echoes her most famous book, Rebecca. Most of the other stories included in the collection have never been published or have been out of print for decades.Ī macabre and unsettling tale about a young man besotted by a young violinist, who in turn has a strange and haunting passion. East Wind was written when she was just nineteen, until now it has only ever been published in the United States and was found in her 1926 notebooks in the archives at Exeter University. Excitingly, East Wind is one of several recently rediscovered stories by Daphne du Maurier, and published in her new anthology, The Doll: Short Stories. In East Wind the lives of a young couple are altered irrevocably when a group of beguiling strangers are shipwrecked off the shores of the Scilly Isles. ![]() Originally broadcast in May, 2011 on BBC Radio 4. Written in the late 1920s when du Maurier herself was just twenty, The Doll reveals some of the dark themes that she explores in the novels that made her name. ![]() The Doll is the title story of a newly published collection by Daphne du Maurier, and excitingly, is one of several recently re-discovered short fictions by the famous writer that have either never been published or have been out of print for decades. ![]()
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