I'm re-reading an old favorite, Frenchman's Creek by du Maurier, originally published in 2003.
Romance, suspense, drama, and adventure rolled into one book. A bored but wealthy housewife in Restoration London, Lady Dona escapes to her other house in Cornwall. She meets a daring French pirate and joins him in an adventure she has always dreamed of.
I forgot the ending, and am wondering how the story will pan out at the end of the novel.
Jamaica Inn is another of du Maurier's books I've read and want to revisit. Set in Cornwall among smugglers, this is another adventure novel. Young Mary Yellan joins her uncle at Jamaica Inn and finds romance and danger.
The House on the Strand is another book that was intriguing, with some magical realism. A young man is offered a potion that sends him back to medieval Cornwall. However, he finds he wants to go back time and again when the potions wear off after several hours.
The Scapegoat is one of my favorites. John and Jean meet by chance at a railway station and notice their uncanny resemblance to each other. Jean takes John's satchel containing all his id's and disappears, leaving John to switch identities and manage a crumbling French chateau, where failing properties and dismal family relationships will challenge all his wits.
And of course, there is du Maurier's most famous book, Rebecca, made into several films over time.
In this book, a new wife arrives at her husband's mansion on the Cornish coast and must deal with the memory of his deceased wife, Rebecca, who has a strange hold on the household and even on her husband.
What are you reading this week?
