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PIFFY, BIRD BING EPUB ED EB
About this book
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 lives of Piffy, Bird & Bing, full of social non-conformity, love, rivalry and compulsive make-believe, their lives as psychologically complex as a Daphne du Maurier novel.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Du Maurier Family Tree
- Preface
- 1. The Curtain Rises
- 2. Lessons in Disguise
- 3. The Dancing Years
- 4. Love and Losing
- 5. In Pursuit of Happiness
- 6. Set on Adventure
- 7. Stepping Out
- 8. A Transfiguring Flame
- 9. Fruits of War
- 10. A Mind in Flight
- 11. A Kind of Reckoning
- 12. Heading for Home
- Afterword
- Picture Section
- Footnotes
- Notes
- Illustrations
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher