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The descriptions are endless; I wondered if she was ever going to get to the point. When she did get to the point it wasn't worth waiting for.
The narrator, Mrs De Winter, is irritating beyond belief and Maxim has no substance.
The story is predictable and twee.
All in all, one of the worst books I've read in a long time. Don't waste your money!
If anything, 'Mrs de Winter' serves the purpose of being a good example of How Not To Write A Novel, never mind a sequel to one of the most beloved classics of 20th century literature. In fact, I would encourage all writers to keep it at hand as a guide; let's see, entire paragraphs held together by comma splices; a complete lack of narrative drive; a storyline that is dependent solely on melodrama and coincidence; a ludicrous and frankly predictable climax, and characters who seem to have experienced a kind of pre-frontal lobotomy since we last saw them, never mind failed to have matured in any way; missing all of the quiet strength, strange empathy and intensely unique personality tics that made du Maurier's original characters so enduring.
What surprises me most is the fact that the author of this sorry piece is Susan Hill, a seasoned writer who is responsible for, among other things, The Woman In Black, an intelligent and hauntingly gothic ghost story that was made into a very successful stage adaptation, and which I had the fortune and pleasure of seeing on tour earlier this year. In other words, there is no excuse for the poor quality of this novel. Undoubtedly Hill has talent, but one would not realise it from reading 'Mrs de Winter'. Was I not aware of Hill's other work, I would have dismissed her as one of those lucky idiots who occasionally slip through the publishing net and manage find an audience for their fanfiction.
I suppose the moral of this story is: sequels are generally a bad idea, unless written by the author of the original work. And even they don't always work out.
Mrs de Winter is irritating beyond belief I just kept wanting to slap her for being so pathetic; I cannot believe that Maxim could possibly have loved her, I think he pitied her & liked the idea of some gauche, naive girl worshipping him, never questioning him & she was someone he could control as well as be in control of his emotions -in other words she was the antithesis of Rebecca, whereas his first wife had threatened him as well as bring out all the worst aspects of his personality, although I do think his love for her was obsessive and possessive; the claim that he hated her is borne out of the fact that he grew to hate her after he discovered she didn't love him. As for Maxim, the man is a murderer and a brute & terribly unsympathetic. However, I was at least pleased to see justice was served at the end of the book -I skimmed through the last few chapters as I had just had enough - not before time either.
I much preferred Sally Beacham's Rebecca's Tale to this sad offering.
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