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A review by ciska
Terugkeer naar Manderley by Sally Beauman
3.0
We move away from the characters Maxim and Mrs. de Winter to some very old acquaintances. Colonel Julyan and his family. Letters start arriving holding old memorabilia from Rebecca. Colonel Julyan was closely involved in the investigation of her dead and seen as a close friend of hers. Soon the packages start to tell the story of Rebecca. How she became Mrs. de Winter and experienced things.
The book is told by 4 people. We start with Colonel Julyan talking about his memories of Rebecca and the investigation. His ideas about what happened. Still he never really opens up and you know he is keeping secrets which is annoying. The next person is the newly introduced Terence Grey. Quickly it is clear he has a lot of secrets of his own. It was interesting to find out his ties with the whole history but again a character that was not very open. Which was annoying.
The next chapters we move over to the females. First Rebecca. It was nice to read her chapters. Written as diaries we finally get more of her back story. And the last chapter is Ellie who is supposed to tie all the ends together. She is way to obsessed to be taken serious but does manage to get closure for a lot of parts of the story. Still not even close to Rebecca it is way more entertaining than Mrs. de Winter.
The book is told by 4 people. We start with Colonel Julyan talking about his memories of Rebecca and the investigation. His ideas about what happened. Still he never really opens up and you know he is keeping secrets which is annoying. The next person is the newly introduced Terence Grey. Quickly it is clear he has a lot of secrets of his own. It was interesting to find out his ties with the whole history but again a character that was not very open. Which was annoying.
The next chapters we move over to the females. First Rebecca. It was nice to read her chapters. Written as diaries we finally get more of her back story. And the last chapter is Ellie who is supposed to tie all the ends together. She is way to obsessed to be taken serious but does manage to get closure for a lot of parts of the story. Still not even close to Rebecca it is way more entertaining than Mrs. de Winter.