My Cousin Rachel

''Du Maurier is mistress of the sleight of hand in fiction . . . brilliantly, marvellously chilling'' MAGGIE O''FARRELL ''Every day, haunted still by doubt, I ask myself a question which I cannot answer. Was Rachel innocent or guilty?'' Philip Ashley has been raised by his cousin Ambrose as heir to his beautiful Cornish estate. But this close-knit world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence, where he unexpectedly falls in love and marries - only to die of a strange illness. Before long, his beautiful, mysterious widow arrives in England - and despite himself, Philip is caught in her spell. But is Rachel a victim, a saviour - or a murderess? Du Maurier is a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile'' NEW YORK TIMES ''Du Maurier has no equal'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH