Alison Jacques is Dreaming of Manderley
Christina Donoghue, SHOW Studio
January 2025
Ask 100 people in a room if they’ve read Daphne du Maurier’s enchanting 1938 novel Rebecca and you’ll most likely find the collective answer forms one emphatic yes. Probe further as to why the book is so well cherished, (copies so well-thumbed that torn spines and coffee-stained pages speak of love rather than neglect) and you’re promised a whole host of responses wildly varying from one person to the next. ‘Rebeca’s a victim, not the villain’, will scream some in defiance. ‘Rebecca deserved her fate’, will coo others. ‘It’s my favourite 20th-century romance’ they’ll say.[…]