Last Night I Dreamt

What is most striking about his style is its honesty, modesty and lack of pretension … Packed to the rafters with delicious details * Frances Wilson, Spectator *
Daphne du Maurier’s many fans will eagerly lap [this book] up … a warm and intimate tribute * Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Times *
Charming … a grandson’s unique perspective … a love letter both to the family and a bygone England * Financial Times *
A work of immense research, written with frankness and a shrewd eye for detail and is beautifully illustrated. The author has unearthed new material on one of the most successful writers of the last century. It is all told with a most engaging conversational charm * Country Life *
An intimate biography that only a family member could write * Sunday Independent *
As compelling as any du Maurier mystery - an extraordinary family saga wonderfully told * Gyles Brandreth *
Intimate, lucid and utterly sincere … an unforgettable portrait of Daphne du Maurier * Tatiana de Rosnay, author of Manderley Forever *
Paul de Zulueta’s lively and enchanting Last Night I Dreamt is absolute catnip for Daphne du Maurier lovers. Richly observed and thick with revelations, it will send you diving back into Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel and more with both greater insight and heightened admiration * Megan Abbott *

Paul de Zulueta is Daphne du Maurier’s eldest grandchild, and son of Tessa, Daphne’s elder daughter. Inspired by the memory of Daphne’s husband, ‘Boy’ Browning’s, distinguished military career, Paul spent his early 20s in the army. He then developed a career in adult education and personal development. Paul started writing in his early 50s and has written obituaries for The Times, book reviews for the Spectator and is a contributing editor to the Household Division Journal. He has written two books published by Osprey Bloomsbury: Peace, War and Whitehall (ghosted memoirs for Field Marshal Lord Guthrie, Tony Blair’s chief of defence staff) and Those Must be The Guards (the authorised history of the Household Division 1969-2023 with a Foreword by The Princess Royal).

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