Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of "Rebecca" learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man.

The young bride is inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten by the forbidding housekeeper Mrs Danvers. Her suite of rooms is never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant still loyal. A sense of foreboding hangs over Manderley ...