![]() Treated as a son by his guardian, he is heir to his big house and beautiful Cornish estate, where he feels at ease in their emphatically male bastion. The story focuses on the sexually inexperienced Philip Ashley – orphaned at an early age and raised by his wealthy and resolutely single cousin, Ambrose. ![]() I received my copy of book number 491 in the Virago Modern Classics’ collection as a gift, when it was republished to tie-in with the 2017 film starring Rachel Weisz (which I haven’t seen) – though, along with many a literary masterpiece, it had hitherto lain slumped on my TBR list for donkey’s years. When Ali Hope, the blog mistress at Heavenali, announced she would be hosting her first-ever Daphne du Maurier Reading Week from the 13th to 19th May, I knew instantly that the time had come to pluck the 1951 novel, My Cousin Rachel, from the uppermost reaches of my library shelves. And the heart controls the body, and the mind also. It passes from the tongue to the parched lips, and from the lips back to the heart. It lingers on the tongue, insidious and slow, almost like poison, which is apt indeed. “ How soft and gentle her name sounds when I whisper it. ![]() ( 43 ) My contribution to Daphne du Maurier Reading Week. ![]() THOUGHTS ON: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier ![]() Home › Readathons / Challenges › THOUGHTS ON: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier ![]()
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