SALLY BEAUMAN

El día del vigésimo aniversario de la muerte de Rebeca, la inolvidable primera esposa de Maxim de Winter, un paquete anónimo llega en el correo del coronel Julyan, un viejo amigo de la familia. Se trata de un cuaderno negro que, además de dos fotografías —una de la propia Rebeca de niña y otra de Manderley—, lleva en la portada un título sugerente: Historia de Rebeca. A pesar del tiempo transcurrido, Julyan no ha llegado a creerse nunca la explicación oficial sobre la muerte de Rebeca y el subsiguiente incendio y destrucción de Manderley. ¿Fue Rebeca una mujer fatal, manipuladora y promiscua, tal como la describió su marido, o por el contrario, fue una persona íntegra e independiente, adelantada a su tiempo, cuyas ideas y valores provocaron su trágico destino? Hasta el momento, la única «verdad» admitida es el testimonio de Maxim, pero ahora, gracias a este valioso cuaderno, cuatro personas darán su versión de lo que ocurrió en Manderley hace dos decenios. Partiendo de la famosa obra de Daphne du Maurier, Sally Beauman ha escrito una gran novela de intrigas y pasiones que fascinará a quienes aún no hayan leído Rebeca y evocará en los lectores ya iniciados los mejores momentos de ese gran clásico del siglo XX.

Sally Beauman is the author of the bestselling REBECCAS TALE. First published in 1990, DARK ANGEL is her second novel and already international bestseller which has been widely translated and contain

If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing -- Maisie's maze - - and I hate it. I need to be informed ...; The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an account of her family and of her village friend Daniel Nunn, a young man she idolises, whom she watches over the chasm of a class divide. But is Maisie's description of a summer idyll all it seems? This is the summer when the three sisters' lives will irrevocably, and terribly, change. The winter of 1991, in London: the now-famous portrait of the three sisters features in a major retrospective. Daniel Nunn, haunted by the vanished England of his childhood, obsessed by the three sisters and newly determined to understand what happened that last summer, pursues the ghosts of his past.

From Sally Beauman, the bestselling author of DESTINY, comes the superbly daring and completely captivating companion to one of the best-loved novels in the English language. A masterly piece of literary resurrection Penny Perrick, Sunday Times

One Evening in Paris, Edouard de Chavigny becomes a man obsessed. A wealthy, notorious womanizer, he is captivated by a mysterious young Englishwoman, Helene Craig, and knows that she is the woman he has been searching for all his life. But Helene is not what she seems. While Edouard offers her wealth, freedom and passion, she must weigh these attractions against the demands of her own secret life and her determination to exact revenge for the destruction of her childhood world. What neither Helene nor Edouard knows is that their lives are already linked, and that ahead of them lie years of public glamour and private pain.