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Daphne:A Portrait Of Daphne Du Maurier (

Judith Cook

Start date: January 15, 2019

Finish date: February 14, 2019

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Discussion leader: Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂

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Jan 13, 2019 Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: biography-memoirs

4.5★

Quite simply, one of the best biographies I've ever read!

Not without flaws and I'll get those out of the way first.

📚 The biggest for me (And Cook isn't the only literary biographer who does this) was the spoiler filled summaries of D du M's books. Fortunately I realised very quickly that Cook was going to do this with every...single...book and skipped over them. While I am keen to read The Loving Spirit, the following two novels sound dire and I'm highly unlikely to attempt them, so I'm not ...more

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Feb 16, 2019 Kim Kaso rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Apr 03, 2017 debbicat *made of stardust* marked it as to-read · review of another edition

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Jan 23, 2019 Susan in Perthshire marked it as to-read · review of another edition

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