My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier

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Published: 1951

‘Every day, haunted still by doubt, I ask myself a question which I cannot answer.
Was Rachel innocent or guilty?’

Philip Ashley has been raised by his cousin Ambrose as heir to his beautiful Cornish estate. But this close-knit world is shattered when Ambrose travels to Florence, where he unexpectedly falls in love and marries – only to die of a strange illness. Before long, his beautiful, mysterious widow arrives in England – and despite himself, Philip is caught in her spell. But is Rachel a victim, a saviour – or a murderess?

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