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Title	:	Rebecca's Tale
Author	:	Sally Beauman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	January 30th 2007 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Gothic. Romance

Rebecca's Tale

Sally Beauman

Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 3.49 | 2849 Users | 369 Reviews

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April 1951. It has been twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, and twenty years since Manderley, the de Winter family's estate, was destroyed by fire. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning.

Colonel Julyan, an old family friend, receives an anonymous package concerning Rebecca. An inquisitive young scholar named Terence Gray appears and stirs up the quiet seaside hamlet with questions about the past and the close ties he soon forges with the Colonel and his eligible daughter, Ellie. Amid bitter gossip and murky intrigue, the trio begins a search for the real Rebecca and the truth behind her mysterious death.

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Original Title:	Rebecca's Tale
ISBN:	006117467X (ISBN13: 9780061174674)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Rebeccas-Tale-Sally-Beauman/?isbn=9780061174674

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I'd really like to give it 1.5 stars, but it gets 2 simply because it started out with alot of promise. However, by the end it became a politically correct, feminist scree from Beauman that made no sense in the context of the time period which the book took place.Simply one of those books where the writer should have quit while they were ahead.

Reading Wide Sargasso Sea reminded me that years ago I'd bought a copy of Beauman's novel which in effect gives the other side of the story about Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. Although chastened by the Rhys book, I plunged in anyway.The novel has four narrators: Colonel Julyan, who was Maxim de Winter's old pal and who was keen not to raise too many questions about Rebecca's death; a young scholar who's come to snoop around Manderley for reasons of his own; Rebecca herself in a discovered diary

I understand Beauman's impulse. Rebecca's narrator IS undoubtedly unreliable, and you do get the idea that there might be more to Rebecca than Maxim's version of her. We leave du Maurier's novel with many unanswered questions, including psychoanalytical ones about Maxim (superego? His NAME means "rule"), the narrator (identity only through her husband? accomplice or heroine?), and our own loyalties (should I be rooting for the side I chose?). Such ambiguities are what elevate Rebecca above

This is the book that introduced me to Rebecca du Maurier. Dark and haunted in a manner not unlike Wuthering Heights, it is immensely readable. Wonderful for a dark winter's night when a storm is raging and the sea is rising up....

*Special Content only on my blog, Strange and Random Happenstance during Du Maurier December (December 2018)Colonel Julyan has always wondered if he did wrong by Rebecca. He was her only real friend when she was the mistress of Manderley and he never looked too closely at the verdict of suicide once it was revealed she was dying of cancer. Could her husband, Maxim, have killed her in a jealous rage without ever realizing she was using him to end her life? Ever since that day in London, before

Fake sequels (those written by someone other than the author) are pretty bad in the first place, but this one goes over the top. If you're going to write a fake sequel, you can't claim that what the original author wrote wasn't the truth. (i.e. oh, actually, Rebecca never had an affair with her cousin; that was just ugly gossip.)Clearly Beaumont knows REBECCA very well, but has always sympathized more with Rebecca than with the narrator, and felt the need to redeem her somehow. The description

While I don't think that Rebecca's Tale is quite the great classic that its literary source is, I enjoyed it very much on a second reading, possibly more than the first time. It's certainly a page turner in the way Rebecca is, and it's also just as full of unreliable narrators interpreting stories, at second hand, that were unreliable start with! Having read it I still don't know if Rebecca was a Jezebel or a woman multiply wronged... although it does seem to me that she might have been a