Rebecca

I've had this on my TBR for a little while and had always been hesitant to pick it up. As others have said, I expected a stuffy, pompous romance and that's just not me. Wow I was wrong!! I LOVED IT!!

I wouldn't say it's my favourite book ever or the best book in the world but I loved it for what it was - a dark, gothic, suspenseful mystery. It certainly doesn't feel like it was written in 1938, du Maurier writes with excellent pacing and such atmosphere that it's so easy to sit and get lost in Manderley for hours on end. It's the perfect book to curl up with on a gloomy wintry day and feel like you're there.

I can see how it's become so beloved and is rightly seen as a modern classic, I would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes a gothic mystery or has never tried Daphne du Maurier before. It was the first of her novels I've read and I'll certainly be reading more.