Daphne du Maurier

A remarkable insight into the mind of a woman who became a famous writer and remained a person of warmth, wisdom and integrity.The author writes of her early life, from the time she was very small until, at the age of 25, her first novel had been published.

After experimenting with a drug, Dick Young is transported back to the fourteenth century and starts to resent time he must spend in the modern world.

Philip Ashley, an orphan, is raised by his much older cousin, Ambrose, a single man who names Philip as his heir. On a trip to Florence Ambrose meets and marries the beautiful Rachel but then dies suddenly without returning home.When Rachel arrives in England Philip finds himself strongly attracted to her.

A warring family, ailing business, sordid past and the chance of escape for opportunist Jean Comte de Gue.