SALLY BEAUMAN

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

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

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, ademas de dos fotografias una de la propia Rebeca de niña y otra de Manderley, lleva en la portada un titulo sugerente: Historia de Rebeca. A pesar del tiempo transcurrido, Julyan no ha llegado a creerse nunca la explicacion oficial sobre la muerte de Rebeca y el subsiguiente incendio y destruccion de Manderley. ¿Fue Rebeca una mujer fatal, manipuladora y promiscua, tal como la describio su marido, o por el contrario, fue una persona integra e independiente, adelantada a su tiempo, cuyas ideas y valores provocaron su tragico destino? Hasta el momento, la unica verdad admitida es el testimonio de Maxim, pero ahora, gracias a este valioso cuaderno, cuatro personas daran su version de lo que ocurrio 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 fascinara a quienes aun no hayan leido Rebeca y evocara en los lectores ya iniciados los mejores momentos de ese gran clasico del siglo XX.

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.

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.