Working as a lady's companion, the orphaned heroine of Rebecca learns
her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the
South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose
sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Whisked from
glamorous Monte Carlo to his brooding estate, Manderley, on the
Cornish Coast, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the
memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the
forbidding Mrs Danvers ...
This week's book is Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and we'll not be meeting at The Fletcher Moss on William Street in Didsbury but will be meeting online — contact us for details.