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Daphne (Hardcover)

de Justine Picardie (Author)
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Former BritishVogue editor Picardie (My Mother's Wedding Dress) gives us a fictional life of Rebecca novelist Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) that founders in obsession. In the late 1950s, du Maurier, determined to establish herself as a serious writer, researched and wrote a biography of Branwell Brontë, the often-overlooked real-life brother of sisters Emily and Charlotte. Flash forward to the present, in which a nameless graduate student seeks out lost secrets about the relationship between du Maurier and John Alexander Symington, the Brontë expert and curator to whom du Maurier dedicated her eventual Brontë book. Picardie's novel quickly becomes a tangle of redundancies, as the student, in one plot line, grows increasingly obsessed with du Maurier and loses touch with reality. Meanwhile, in another thread, du Maurier and Symington both flirt with madness in their separate Branwell quests. Du Maurier's fictional characters, especially Rebecca, haunt the story unproductively, as do the Brontës, Brontë protagonists, and Barrie's Peter Pan and the Lost Boys (who were inspired by du Maurier's cousins). Picardie does best with Symington, whose career ended in scandal: she portrays his dissolution coldly, letting observations rip in a way she never quite manages with the fictive Daphne. (Aug.)
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“A century after her birth, Daphne du Maurier, who achieved enormous commercial success but no place in the literary canon, is finally getting some critical respect. Feminism can take some of the credit, and there can be little question now that du Maurier was an innovative and strikingly original literary artist. Her distinctive character comes to life in Picardie’s fictional portrait, which is a complex novelistic homage to du Maurier and her most famous book, Rebecca.”—Atlantic Monthly

"Engaging...Picardie [is] a clever writer and diligent researcher...In chapters that shuttle smoothly between past and present, Picardie takes us inside the minds of our unhappy modern heroine, of despairing du Maurier, and of the dishonest Symington. Through poems and letters, we even catch glimpses of Branwell. All of which - along with forgery, incest, mental breakdown, suicide, and affairs lesbian and heterosexual - could have been far too much. But Picardie, as she capably manages the intertwined plots, keeps our attention fixed on the two very different women.”—Boston Globe

“Like a du Maurier novel, mystery and gothic plotting make the novel a page turner...A novel for anyone who loves novels.”—Booklist

"Spirited [and] tender."—Wall Street Journal

"An engrossing and absorbing read...superbly evoked. [Picardie] has lived, breathed, eaten and drunk her heroine, absorbed her, analyzed her, understood her, then managed to invest her portrait with an authenticity that is breathtaking"—Los Angeles Times

“Merging fact and fiction, all three narratives come together brilliantly in the end.”—More magazine

“An absolute gem of a novel. Well-researched...sure to send readers scurrying back to all those books they should have read in college. [Daphne] will be a hit with fans of du Maurier, the Brontës, and British fiction generally as well as the avid bibliophile. An excellent book club selection.”—Library Journal

"A tantalising literary mystery... Effortlessly overlaying today’s London, Yorkshire and Cornwall with their 1950s incarnations, this novel draws you in to its fraught but passionate world as thoroughly as one of Daphne’s own."—The Financial Times (UK/US)

“Daphne is a compulsively readable novel. It merges fact and fiction, the present and the past, in a near-flawless construct that weaves together Brontë and du Maurier fiction and family history — colliding in Daphne’s writing of her biography of Branwell Brontë.” —The Spectator (UK)

"This glorious novel... is a divine treat for lovers of literary mysteries."—The Times of London (UK)

“Clever and original”—The Evening Standard (UK)

“An intelligent, absorbing mystery story, a real tour de force all bookworms will love.” —Daily Mail (UK)

“In a story deserving of the great Daphne herself, Picardie has constructed a fiction based on truth—du Maurier's writing of her biography of Branwell Bronte. Picardie explores literary possession and attribution and sympathetically portrays Daphne's strained marriage and the breakdown of the modern day narrator's relationship. The shadow of Rebecca is still there haunting her creator and Picardie's narrator.  Bloomsbury quite rightly sees this as a February lead, but I'd add that it’s a huge potential best seller; a hugely satisfying can't-put-it-down read.”—Publishing News (UK)

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4.0étoiles sur 5 "That seemed a million miles away from London, yet somehow within my reach.", Sep 27 2008
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Moving from Menabilly in Cornwall to Horsforth, Leeds and then onto Hamstead, London, this atmospheric novel tells of how the famous novelist Daphne De Maurier came to write her biography Infernal World of Branwell Bronte. Retreating from the frustrations and disillusions of her marriage to Sir Tommy Browning, Daphne lies ensconced in the relative peace of Menabilly, nursing her insecurities and dreaming of Rebecca, who appears like a ghost in the mirror, her story seeming to rapidly come to life as Daphne walks by the sea. Tranquility, however, proves to be temporary when Tommy, almost unrecognizable, suddenly pitiful and weak and shrunken comes home from his stay in a nursing home in London. Daphne cherishes her isolation at Menabilly, indeed has fallen in love with the home for its remoteness, yet she cannot seem to keep at bay the nagging anxieties of Tommy's bitterness and his infidelities with a young woman called the Snow Queen whom Tommy had been seeing in London.

On the first few nights of Tommy's return, Daphne finds herself ever more preoccupied with the famous Branwell Bronte. She is almost sure that he would be her next subject, especially since she had once visited the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth and had been haunted be Branwell's sense that he had achieved nothing great nor good in his life. With the specter of Branwell's unwritten masterpieces, Daphne is tormented by the knowledge of the boy's unfulfilled promise. In an effort to find out more about Branwell's life, she begins writing to J. Alex Symington, the correspondence between them both rapidly becoming elaborate circumlocutions, Symington's language guarded and as fenced and hedged as the Menabilly estate, forcing Daphne to read between the lines. His letters are as infuriating as they are intriguing, hinting at a previous deception concerning the Bronte manuscripts and the trail of a remarkable literary scandal, a series of forgeries, perhaps by the culprit T.J. Wise, Symington's one-time colleague.

As Daphne tries to get to the heart of the intriguing matter, the possibility that Emily and Charlotte's signatures have been forged on Branwell's manuscripts, she attempts to lose herself in the rhythms of Menabilly's daily life. She cannot stop herself feeling anxious for Tom who is always on the edge of tears, of anger, of irritation of frustration. Feeling oppressed by the "lowering skies, the clouds the colour of bruises," Daphne becomes determined to get to the truth. It's almost as though Branwell is a guest in the house, a disreputable yet intriguing figure drawing her attention away from Tommy. She has the strange sense of being wedded to Branwell: "they were in this together, in the shadow lands for better, for worse."

In interlocking and melodious worlds Justine Picardie's tale drifts between Daphne, Symington, and an unnamed narrator, a young girl who lives in Hamstead, just across the road from Daphne's childhood home, similarly enthralled and frightened by the imaginary worlds of the Brontes and with Daphne De Maurier. Lost in fog of marital uncertainly the girl becomes blindly intrigued by Daphne's letters to Symington and by his replies to her. Her husband Paul, a serious academic of Henry James is horrified that that his wife would take the works of Daphne de Maurier so seriously.

A tale about the patterns of life that constantly echo or mirror, both Daphne and Symington are united by a strange and shared passion for a dead writer who just about everyone else had forgotten or consigned to the dust-heap of failure. Of course, Symington is driven by his own literary ambitions, but as he becomes ever-more sickly, hounded by his nagging wife Beatrice for their financial woes, his desire to prove that Branwell was the author of much of Wuthering Heights is danger of being nothing but a hopeless dream. Locked up with his remaining manuscripts, in a limbo of his own making, along with the "papery ghosts" and the shadows in the corner of his study, Branwell and Symington become inseparable, entwined together like vines. Similarly, Daphne becomes a paranoid prisoner to her to her cunning plots and her brooding characters, desperate to finish the biography, but also distrustful of the world around her even as she becomes as inextricably linked to Branwell as she is to Tommy.

Elusive, mocking, and enraging, this novel is sometimes too didactic and overly filled with literary illusions, yet the narrative possesses a compelling dream-like quality, both in its dark and gloomy descriptions of Menabilly, Daphne's remote mansion by the sea, and in her recollections of her family and her past, and also the characters from her books that seem to scud across the sky above her in ghostly forms. The characters' pursuit of the literary scandal is no doubt absorbing from the first chapter, but the book mostly shows how the veil can be lifted between the living and the dead and with the past and the present and how fiction and reality can combine to create a sense of shared passion and obsession. Mike Leonard September 08.
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