Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters - The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing

Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography.

About the author

Described by the Sunday Times as ‘one of our best biographers’, Jane Dunn writes about women and their relationships, and sisters in particular. Her books include a biography of the sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and the bestseller Elizabeth & Mary, which looks at the lives of the cousin queens Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Bath with her husband the writer and linguist, Nicholas Ostler.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Dunn, Dunn Jane
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9780007347094
• ISBN: 978-0-00-734709-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Cornwall, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Biography: writers