In 1938, Joan Harrison read a galley of Daphne Du Maurier’s masterpiece. She wouldn’t rest until she had the rights to adapt it.
October 21, 2020 By Christina LaneVIA
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Source: ‘Rebecca’ at Eighty: The Women Behind the Hitchcock Classic ‹ CrimeReads
“They are a perfect, golden couple,” Rachel Watson thinks, regarding handsome Jason and his striking wife, Jess. “He is dark-haired and well built, strong, protective, kind. He has a great laugh. She is one of those tiny bird-women, a beauty, pale-skinned with blond hair cropped short.” Rachel, the main narrator of Paula Hawkins’ novel The Girl on the Train, is obsessed with the pair; they represent to her the perfect relationship that she once had, or seemed to, before it imploded spectacularly.
via Book Review: ‘The Girl On The Train,’ By Paula Hawkins | : NPR.
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