Mi prima Rachel (Rara Avis nº 32) (Spanish Edition) → My Cousin Rachel (Rara Avis No. 32) (Spanish Edition)

Philip Ashley, the narrator of this novel, is a young orphan who has been raised by his cousin Ambrose, a Cornish landowner twenty years his senior, in a large isolated house, with gentle and unquestioned routines, without conflicts and without women. When the cousin has to travel to Italy for health reasons, he meets a woman, Rachel, a distant relative educated in Florence, the widow of a count who died in a duel and left her covered in debt. He marries her, and shortly afterwards, he dies suddenly. "I swore that all the pain and suffering Ambrose had paid, I would return to the woman who had caused them," Philip says upon hearing the news. But barely a few weeks have passed and Rachel presents herself in Cornwall... and the irrational animosity the young man felt towards her gradually turns into an uncontrollable fascination that does not diminish as the circumstances of his cousin's death become increasingly suspicious.

My Cousin Rachel (1951) is a great psychological novel, full of suspense, in which Daphne du Maurier explored, as in Rebecca, the ghostly influence in a house of an absent figure. It is also a subtle study of what a man believes a woman to be and the bumpy journey that prejudices take when they confront an unexpected reality.

XIII Esther Benítez Translation Award to Concha Cardeñoso Sáenz de Miera

"From the first page, the reader is transported to the murky and disturbing atmosphere of Rebecca"

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