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We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass. And then I open the door and go to the dining-room, where he is sitting waiting for me at a table, and I think how in that moment I have aged, and passed on, how I have advanced one step towards an unknown destiny. We smile, we choose our lunch, we speak of this and that, but - I say to myself-I am not she who left him five minutes ago. She has stayed behind. I am another woman, older, more mature…


— Daphne du Maurier


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' Her stories read like classic tales of terror and suspense but written with a sure touch for character imagery and suggestive meaning. Christian (b. In the summer of 1943 Daphne du Maurier began writing the autobiographically inspired drama The Years Between about the unexpected return of a senior officer thought killed in action who finds that his wife has taken his seat as Member of Parliament and has started a romantic relationship with a local farmer.

eɪ/; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright. : /ˈdæfni duː ˈmɒri. Her elder sister was the writer Angela du Maurier.

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