I very much like your presentation, but wish to add that a few years ago in a secondhand bookshop, I discovered 'The King's General', which I'd never heard of. I love it so much that have now read it three times. It's set during the English Civil Wars of the C17th, but most intriguing is that she used the house she lived in which was built around 1600. At the end of my copy was a footnote about a secret room and staircase discovered in the early C19th during a reconstruction. The room by her time had either gone or been sealed, but its existence in the past intrigued her. She wrote this book right after WW2, and so going back exactly 300 years to the corresponding decade (from the 1940s to the 1640s), she found a way of writing about the situation of women in particular and the desperate circumstances both during the war itself, the damage done and the aftermath. I love the book and highly recommend it.
Yes The Kings General is great! I love historical fiction that’s based in a real event or place and that hidden room was so intriguing, I love her take on it!
@@BellesBooksbyCarly Just a footnote on historical fiction, following the above: I've just read The Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris, which serves in its way as a follow up to events in The King's General. The story picks up from the year Cromwell died and the beginning of the Restoration. Two men who were involved in signing the document to ratify the execution of Charles I are on the run from a very vengeful Royalist sympathiser who wishes to settle old scores. In a way, the message to me is about the need to forgive and forget and bring peace and rest to the past. His portrayal of the period and the mentality of the people of England at that time is very evocative. It seemed to serve as a final footnote to Daphne's book.
Daphne du Maurier is one of my most favourite authors 😊 Thanks for lovely video, some great tips for books there, especially biography ones which I really like to read so I´ll have a look.
Your amazing... Love this video...felt like I was sitting on the floor with ya viewing your wonderful Daphne collection... Thank you for your time..I'm now on eBay buying a bunch of Daphne books...hahaha...I could listen to you for hours...just subscribed...lol...Todd from Boston Massachusetts area...USA...
About the parasites yes there was it isn't expisit but neil makes Sure everyone knows there step siblings and there relationship though never crossing lines gos there
@@BellesBooksbyCarly yes marias mother was a previous 'girlfriend' who died while niel's mother is mama. Mrs Delaney. I atually liked how sinister there relationship is its not a healthy dependency but its not saposed to be
