![]() It’s to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, his French companion has stolen his identity and disappeared. Their resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking – until at last John, the Englishman, falls into a drunken stupor. ![]() She has been called one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. An entertaining and suspenseful tale of a successful facade, The Scapegoat is a type of bestseller that gains a large following because of authorial name recognition, and the wide-spread approval of the desired audience. ’Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, „ Je vous demande pardon,” and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.īy chance, two men – one English, the other French – meet in a provincial railway station. Daphne du Maurier (19071989) was born in London, the daughter of the actor Sir Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of the author and artist George du Maurier. In addition to The Scapegoat and The House on the Strand, Dame Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) wrote more than twenty-five acclaimed novels, short stories, and plays, including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchmans Creek, and 'The Birds. Amid Daphne du Maurier's vast stack of acclaimed works lies her 1957 bestseller The Scapegoat. ![]() ’What a magnificent thriller this is’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ![]()
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