A haunting novel that illuminates the true story of <strong>Daphne</strong> du Mauriersfascination with the Brontes a tale of madness theft romance and literary... » 

A haunting novel that illuminates the true story of Daphne du Mauriersfascination with the Brontes a tale of madness theft romance and literaryarchaeology. Drawing on Justine Picardies own extensive research into Daphnedu Mauriers obsession with the Brontes and the scandal that has haunted theBronte estate Daphne is a marvelous story of literary fascination andpossession of stolen manuscripts and forged signatures of love lost and lovefound of the way into imaginary worlds and the way out again. Written inthree entwined parts the novel follows Daphne du Maurier herself thebeautiful tomboyish passionate author of the enormously popular Gothic novelRebecca at fifty and on the verge of madness John Alexander Symingtoneminent editor and curator of the Brontes manuscripts who by 1957 had beendismissed from the Bronte Parsonage Museum in disgrace and who became Daphnescorrespondent and a nameless modern researcher on the trail of DaphneRebecca Alexander Symington and the Brontes. Haunting and gorgeouslywritten Daphne is a breathtaking novel that finally tells in the mostimaginative of ways what Bronte biographer Juliet Barker has called the lastgreat untold Bronte storyand perhaps the most intriguing. «