But everything changes when Ambrose, while spending a winter in Italy, writes to Philip that he has met and married a distant cousin, Rachel, and plans to stay in Italy. It's a nearly idyllic life for the two bachelors, except that Ambrose's ill health forces him to go abroad to escape the damp, cold Cornish winters.
Philip Ashley is raised by his older cousin after his parents die when he is three years old. Beautiful, sophisticated, and magnetic, Philip cannot help but feel drawn to Rachel.Īnd yet, questions still linger: might she have had a hand in Ambrose's death? And how, exactly, did Ambrose die? As Philip pursues the answers to these questions, he realizes that his own fate could hang in the balance. But when she arrives at the estate, Rachel seems to be a different woman from the one described in Ambrose's letters. Jealous of his marriage, racked by suspicion at the hints in Ambrose's letters, and grief-stricken by his death, Philip prepares to meet his cousin's widow with hatred in his heart. There he falls in love and marries a mysterious distant cousin named Rachel â? and there he dies suddenly. But the cozy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, and Philip grows to love Ambrose's grand estate as much as he does. Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose.
Daphne du Maurier's classic novel of lust, suspicion, and obsession that inspired major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin.
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