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The Scapegoat (Virago Modern Classics)

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But the question that really bugs me is why doesn’t anyone seem to notice that he’s not Jean – not his brother, his mother or even his wife and child?

Naturally, they expect him to continue running the family glass-making business and arranging shooting parties - things that John has absolutely no experience in.Archives Archives Tags Art Biography Book List Book Review Books Book Tag Classical Music Classics Debut Novel Detective Fiction Fantasy Fiction French Literature Historical Fiction History Horror Italian Literature Japan Japanese Books Japanese Literature Literary Fiction Music Mystery Non-Fiction Novella Paintings Philip K.

All the while, though the reader is hoping this man will succeed, du Maurier in her inimitable fashion leaves you feeling that it cannot possibly end well. Like Alice falling down the rabbit hole, the narrator finds himself in another world; a world that he finds curiouser and curiouser. In a nightmarish scenario that follows, John finds himself overwhelmed by his “new” family members’ attention and, in some cases, hostility. It wasn't even what I thought it would be about when I had so many times passed it over for something else. A story that examines identity and fate in a thoughtful way, written in the author's elegant but provoking pen.Not only does he have to have to think carefully about every word and every action, he has to deal with situations and relationships that he lacks the skill and experience to handle, and that forces him to think deeply about his own motives and actions. John learns that Maurice Duval, former head of the glassworks, was killed during the German Occupation. She was one of a small number of authors that my mother guided me towards when I progressed from the junior to the senior library.

I made an effort to feel some sympathy towards them, just to anchor myself to the story, and succeeded for a time, to direct them towards Francoise (Jean's wife) and Blanche (his sister) who were both utterly wronged by the true Jean de Gue. In Rebecca, on the other hand, du Maurier fuses psychological realism with a sophisticated version of the Cinderella story.

At the start of the book, he is on his way back to a London he would rather not reach and considers stopping off at a Trappist Monastery for succour. If it were titled The Doppelgänger or something more mysterious maybe it would have been more appealing. He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I’ve heard so many great things about this book, and your enticing review leaves me feeling all the more intrigued by it. I don’t fancy all of them, but I’d put this up there with Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel and above Jamaica Inn which was a bit too disturbing for me!

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