FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA

'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'A magician, a virtuoso' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

'There is an intense and exhilarating fusion of feeling, landscape, climate, character and story' GUARDIAN

'Mary Farren went into the gun room one morning about half-past eleven, took her husband's revolver and loaded it, then shot herself. The butler heard the sound of the gun from the pantry ... '

The fourteen haunting stories in this collection span the whole of Daphne du Maurier's writing career and explore every human emotion: an apparently happily married woman commits suicide; a steamer in wartime is rescued by a mysterious sailing-ship; a dull husband breaks loose in a surprising fashion; a con woman plays her game once too often; and a famous novelist looks for romance, only to meet with bitter disappointment.

Each meticulously observed tale shows du Maurier's mastery of the genre.