![]() His head is turned, and he shows himself as variously rash, foolish, impetuous, petulant, immature and vulnerable. ![]() Philip's feelings about Rachel, the widow of his cousin Ambrose who has brought him up and been his companion, corkscrew from imagined hate and despising to surprised tolerance and then love - of a sort. Those are the bare bones of Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel, the story of Philip Ashley and his eponymous relative, a book with a subtle atmosphere of unease which creates in the reader a sense of foreboding and a desire to wrest the central character from a fate largely of his own making. ![]()
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