![]() ![]() Philip becomes obsessed with Rachel, spending money on the estate to impress her, arranging for her to be paid a monthly allowance, and attempting to gift her a valuable family necklace at Christmas. His initial hostility melts away when he meets Rachel, a beautiful, intelligent and witty woman about ten years his senior. He returns to England, taking charge of the estate and is persuaded to receive Rachel as a guest. ![]() After receiving a letter from Ambrose describing Rachel as “my torment”, Philip travels to Italy, to discover Ambrose had died and Rachel has departed. When Philip is 24, Ambrose travels to Florence to improve his health, meeting and marrying his cousin Rachel, the recently widowed Contessa Sangalletti. Philip Ashley has been raised since childhood by his elder cousin Ambrose, the owner of a country estate in Cornwall. What it’s about: Cornwall, England, the 1830s. ![]() In which I review My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier’s 1951 thriller about a young Victorian aristocrat who becomes obsessed with his cousin Rachel, a widow who may have poisoned her husband. ![]()
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