Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her
fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting
new biography.
The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one
of the master storytellers of our time, author of 'Rebecca', 'Jamaica
Inn' and 'My Cousin Rachel', and short stories, 'Don't Look Now' and the
terrifying 'The Birds' among many. Her stories were made memorable by
the iconic films they inspired, three of them classic Hitchcock
chillers. But it was her sisters, writer Angela and artist Jeanne, who
found the courage to defy the conventions that hampered Daphne's
emotional life.
In this group biography they are considered side by side, as they were
in life, three sisters who grew up during the 20th century in the
glamorous hothouse of a theatrical family dominated by a charismatic and
powerful father. This family dynamic reveals the hidden world of the
three sisters - Piffy, Bird & Bing, as they were known to each other -
full of social non-conformity, love, rivalry and compulsive
make-believe, their lives as psychologically complex as a Daphne du
Maurier novel.