‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again’

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”

― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

 

 

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Last night I dreamt of Manderley

And of the time gone by

We can't go back to yesterday

But our hope will never die

 

 

"I first read Rebecca at perhaps 13, half-drowsing in the back of the family car. Arrested at once by that opening line I said to my mother, "Where is Manderley?" She turned in her seat and said, "Oh, somewhere in Cornwall, I suppose," with such an air of stating fact that it was years before I realised I could never buy a ticket to the house and gardens – would never see the boathouse, the Happy Valley, the sloping lawns. But it is as real to me as the bricks-and-mortar houses where I have lived. The name arouses in me not the pleasing recollection of a well-loved book but a response rooted in the senses that is indistinguishable from memory."

 

This is the introduction by Sarah Perry, author of After Me Comes the Flood and The Essex Serpent, to the 80th-anniversary edition of Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier

 

Picture made in my Deep Dreams 😴

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