Private World of Daphne Du Maurier

Summary: Martyn Shallcross knew Dame Daphne Du Maurier for over twenty years, during which time they developed a warm and close friendship. Now, his best-selling biography of this fascinating writer has been revised and updated to include much previously unpublished material. For this, his personal memoir of Dame Daphne, Shallcross draws on the many confidences she shared with him, on his knowledge of her books and the films ...made of them, and on interviews with those... including Alec Guinness, John Gielgud and Douglas Fairbanks Jr... who knew her and her family and were part of her very private world. The first to indicate that Daphne had bisexual tendencies, this revealing and engrossing book depicts a woman far removed from the 'Queen of Romance' described in the tabloid obituaries. It is a fitting tribute to one of the best loved novelists of the twentieth century, [read more]