The Kings General, Daphne du Maurier
The Kings General, Daphne du Maurier
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The King's General

Author: Daphne du Maurier

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Unabridged: 13 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/16/2014


Synopsis

A classic work of historical fiction from the author of Rebecca and The Birds.

Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless — and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone. As the English Civil war is waged across the country, Richard rises through the ranks of the army, marries and makes enemies, and Honor remains true to him.

Decades later, an undaunted Sir Richard, now a general serving King Charles I, finds her. Finally they can share their passion in the ruins of her family's great estate on the storm-tossed Cornish coast — one last time before being torn apart, never to embrace again.

"Daphne du Maurier is a magician, a virtuoso. She can conjure up tragedy, tension, suspense, the ridiculous, the vain, the romantic." —Good Housekeeping

About Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) has been called one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. Among her more famous works are The Scapegoat, Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, and the short story "The Birds," all of which were subsequently made into films—the latter three directed by Alfred Hitchcock.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi

“When the water drains from the marshes, and little by little the yellow sands appear, rippling and hard and firm, it seems to my foolish fancy, as I lie here, that I too go seaward with the tide, and all my old hidden dreams that I thought buried for all time are bare and naked to the day, just as......more

Goodreads review by Baba

READ THIS BOOK! Another du Maurier gem! Set in Cornwall, mostly in the real life Manderly, which was called Menabilly, where du Maurier was residing at the time. The book starts off with privileged young Honor Harris and arrogant, assured and proud Richard Grenville destined to elope, when she is in......more

When thinking of the author Daphne du Maurier, most readers’ thoughts will quickly fly to her most famous novel, “Rebecca”, and thence to “Manderley”, the house which played such a great part in the novel that it was almost a character in itself. And many know that Manderley really exists, but is kn......more