Rejacketed alongside Air and Angels, The Mist in the Mirror and The Woman in Black to create a set of Susan Hill's most absorbing, enchanting and unsettling backlist titles.
Susan Hill's novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewellyn Rhys awards, and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She is the author of 56 books. The play adapted from her famous ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running in the West End since 1989; it is also a major feature film. Her crime novels featuring DCS Simon Serrailler are currently being adapted for TV. Susan Hill was born in Scarborough and educated at King's College London. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells, and they have two daughters. Susan Hill was appointed a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. www.susan-hill.com
Retains all the brooding menace and enigmatic mystery of the
original
*Daily Mail*
The oustanding virtue of Mrs de Winter is the elegance of its
style... Susan Hill, winner of both the Somerset Maugham and
Whitbread prizes, ignores the lush emotionalism of the original,
sacrificing psychological menace for a fresh, modest lyricism which
suits both her story and her times...dignified and respectful
*Independent*
Splendid... A very good ghost story
*Evening Standard*
Susan Hill's imagination is a force to be reckoned with
*The Times*
Done excellently, with professionalism and panache
*Sunday Times*
Beautifully written
*Observer*
Susan Hill is a wonderful writer... Mrs de Winter is magnificently
atmospheric, with everything kept on the brink of the occult -
revenants, haunted houses, gothic storms... Mrs de Winter doesn't
only live up to Rebecca, in terms of strangeness and spooky
lyricism Hill surpasses it
*The Times*
This sequel to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca depicts the further adventures of Maxim de Winter and his second wife. (Nov.)
Retains all the brooding menace and enigmatic mystery of the
original * Daily Mail *
The oustanding virtue of Mrs de Winter is the elegance of
its style... Susan Hill, winner of both the Somerset Maugham and
Whitbread prizes, ignores the lush emotionalism of the original,
sacrificing psychological menace for a fresh, modest lyricism which
suits both her story and her times...dignified and respectful *
Independent *
Splendid... A very good ghost story -- Beryl Bainbridge * Evening
Standard *
Susan Hill's imagination is a force to be reckoned with * The Times
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Done excellently, with professionalism and panache * Sunday Times *
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