It is a less dramatic work, and yet there are small moments of drama – as this is the story of a family, and there is some drama in every family. In a way The Parasites is like none of those. I like the chilling, unsettling nature of her shorter fiction, the historical novels like The House on the Strand, the gothic drama of Rebecca, and the slower paced novels with a strong sense of place like The Flight of the Falcon. My reading has inadvertently led me to explore different sides of the writing of Daphne du Maurier and I have found I like it all. Again, it is quite different to the other two books of hers I have just read, and different again to those I read last year. My third read for #DDMreadingweek was Daphne du Maurier’s 1949 novel The Parasites which is considered to be fairly autobiographical.
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