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One of my absolute favourite authors and this is probably her best-known book. Beautiful language and a compelling story. The narrator is a young and very inexperienced girl, employed as 'companion' to an older lady. During a visit to the Riviera she gets to know and is drawn to a wealthy and sophisticated widower, who, to her great surprise, asks her to marry him. After a quick wedding and a continental honeymoon, they return to his house in England, the magnificent Manderley. She finds herself competing with the former lady of the house, who, although dead for almost one year, is ever present in the house and in the memories of the servants and of her husband. Her inability to cope with or do anything about her situation gets worse and worse, but then small things happen or are said that do not fit the picture and suddenly nothing proves to be what it first seemed...