Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

In all of the novels I’ve read by Daphne du Maurier, the narrator was an outsider who had to make her way in a place with decades of secrets to be penetrated. There is an outsider in My Cousin Rachel, but our narrator is very much an insider. Philip Ashley was raised by an older cousin and a staff made up almost entirely of men. The only women he met were the vicar’s wife and daughters and his godfather’s daughter. His older cousin, Ambrose, brought Philip up thinking there was nothing wrong living apart from women. More, Philip grew up thinking that women were interfering, bothersome creatures best avoided. It was the shock of his young life when Ambrose decided to get married to the titular cousin Rachel...

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