The Housekeeper
$32.01
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
21 September 2026
Summary
‘Daphne du Maurier stole my life.’
Mrs Danowski – known as Danni – is the housekeeper of a grand house on the wild coast of Cornwall. When a glamorous young writer, Daphne du Maurier, visits Manderville Hall to research her new novel, she and Danni are drawn into a clandestine and intoxicating affair.
For Danni, it is an all-consuming love; for Daphne a submission to long-suppressed desires. But their fragile secret is vulnerable to prying eyes and destined fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784745929 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784745928 |
| Author: | Rose Tremain |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 21 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 700g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain’s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel’s Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and France’s Prix Femina (Sacred Country), and the South Bank Sky Arts Award (The Gustav Sonata).
Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. The Housekeeper is currently in production as a major film, directed by Richard Eyre, with script by Tremain, and starring Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.
Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
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