She lived most of her life in Cornwall, the setting for many of her books, and when she died in 1989, Margaret Forster wrote in tribute: ‘No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification. Many of her bestselling novels became award-winning films, and in 1969 du Maurier was herself awarded a DBE. In 1932, du Maurier married Major Frederick Browning, with whom she had three children.īesides novels, du Maurier published short stories, plays and biographies. A biography of her father and three other novels followed, but it was the novel Rebecca that launched her into the literary stratosphere and made her one of the most popular authors of her day. Educated at home with her sisters and later in Paris, she began writing short stories and articles in 1928, and in 1931 her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published. A voracious reader, she was from an early age fascinated by imaginary worlds and even created a male alter ego for herself. DAPHNE DU MAURIER INTRODUCED BY SALLY BEAUMANĭAPHNE DU MAURIER (1907-89) was born in London, the daughter of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of George du Maurier, the author and artist.
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She accepts whatever is thrown in her way with intelligence, resilience, determination, good humor, and good grace. While Julia’s plight is a dire one, there is no angst or poor-pitiful-me involved. They were lovely, lovely people – both separate and together. I absolutely adored Martin and Julia/Jules in this delightfully entertaining book. And there, it takes but one kiss for Martin to stop at nothing in his pursuit of the mysterious woman. until an old friend invites her to a masque. Julia falls from one mortifyingly compromising situation to another as she pines for a duke she can never have. While they work together to rebuild the Dunscaby dynasty, they travel to London where Martin takes it upon himself to introduce his sheltered steward to the world of manly pursuits. The more time she spends with the duke, the more difficult it is to ignore the flickers of passion smoldering in her heart. Vincent has no choice but to dress as a man and accept a position as steward to the Duke of Dunscaby. But upon his father's sudden death, he heads for Scotland where he finds his inheritance in a shambles, his sisters without prospects, and his brothers relying on his patronage-and he's not about to conquer his problems alone. His Grace, Martin MacGalloway, has well-earned the reputation as the most celebrated rake on the entire isle of Britain. but quite another to completely thwart it in the pursuit of insatiable desire. As a former firefighter, all he can do to forget his sorrows is liquor and try to keep Middleton out of his mind. He is aging his fiancée dumped him, and her dream career ended. Tyler Henderson is a golden boy who recently lost his spark. Kate is a woman who knows what she wants and is ready to go after it. Working for a man aged 20 years older has made her fantasize about him each day. She is the girl next door on the outside but inside, a nasty girl. She has been drooling after him since her first day on the job two years ago. Henderson has always attracted Kate for the longest time. She is sure that the type of man she craves isn’t her boss, Mr Henderson. However, it’s been hard to find such kind of man since kinks aren’t for everyone, and she understands it. Kate, a.k.a ‘Middleton’ McGrath, craves a man to call ‘Daddy’ in bed. Readers have described her work as the defibrillator contemporary romance needs.Īct Your Age is the debut in the series by the same name. She creates erotic stories featuring complicated women and charming but somehow tortured men. She has always been a fan of romance books since a young age. Eve Dangerfield is a romance author born in Melbourne, Australia. Indeed, I am not sure whether I ought to call it a room at all for it was just a loft where they kept hay and straw and oats for the horses.Īnd when little Diamond–but stop: I must tell you that his father, who was a coachman, had named him after a favourite horse, and his mother had had no objection:–when little Diamond, then, lay there in bed, he could hear the horses under him munching away in the dark, or moving sleepily in their dreams. Still, this room was not very cold, except when the north wind blew stronger than usual: the room I have to do with now was always cold, except in summer, when the sun took the matter into his own hands. And then let them settle between them which was the sharper! I know that when you pulled it out again the wind would be after it like a cat after a mouse, and you would know soon enough you were not at the back of the north wind. For one side of the room was built only of boards, and the boards were so old that you might run a penknife through into the north wind. He lived in a low room over a coach-house and that was not by any means at the back of the north wind, as his mother very well knew. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. Author of “Dealings with Fairies,” “Ranald Bannerman,” etc., etc. Many things come to mind when Americans think of the Vietnam War. “I really wanted to do what they did,” she says, “weave the personal and the political and the historical to tell a story of the Vietnam War and all the things that caused it, in a way that I felt like I hadn’t seen before.” In an interview with NPR, Bui explained she was inspired to write The Best We Could Do because of graphic memoirs such as Art Spiegelman’s Maus, about the Holocaust, and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, about growing up during Iran’s Islamic Revolution. The graphic novel also explores Bui’s personal struggle to overcome trauma and emotionally connect with her parents. Cartoonist Thi Bui’s debut graphic novel, and winner of the American Book Award in 2018, The Best We Could Do (2017) provides an intimate look into her family’s journey escaping war-torn Vietnam to start their new lives in America. |