Myself When Young

Beschreibung

'A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories' THE TIMES<BR><BR>'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH<BR><BR>'An intimate view of a creative personality . . . as richly evocative as any of her novels' LOS ANGELES TIMES<BR><BR>In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her subsequent marriage.<BR><BR>Here, the writer is open and sometimes painfully honest about the difficult relationship with her father; her education in Paris; early love affairs; her antipathy towards London life and the theatre; her intense love for Cornwall and her desperate ambition to succeed as a writer.

The resulting portrait is of a captivating and complex character. Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history.

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