It really reminded me of the unreliable narrator in the good solider. What is that final statement there to address? That he got away with it, or he got openly blamed or something else? The ending though for me, the full circle about hanging men at the Cross roads is something I need to read further into. I felt from the birthday scene onwards my heart quickened just waiting to see what will happen. I expected he would murder her, but it didn't make it any easier to read. I think I knew from around Christmas things would end badly for Rachel. The book really outlined for me, his attempt to be controlling over Rachel and that the the English gentry culture enabled this behaviour but I admired Rachel for being a capable grown woman handling a difficult situation. I am firmly I'm Rachel's camp and believe that Philip was crazy and controlling. It was fantastic, and I gather the reader is supposed to be thorn as to whether Philip was delusional and a stalker or if Rachel was actually duplicitous. I love Du Maurier but had put it off before thinking it was going to be a Jane Austin style novel and I am not very interested in romance.
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