I knew it would be a strange book after the first chapter which is more of an intro, the "Other Rebecca" leads into a story explaing in an errie sort of way that she fell in love with a man, only to find herself in a book written by another woman. This other woman, the first Rebecca has a way of making her death a living truth in everyone's heart -- even in her new husbands wife. Get ready for a twisting, turning, plot full of questions waiting to be answered...

Maureen Freely's 20th century retelling of Daphne DuMaurier's "Rebecca" updates the 1938 classic with plenty of sex, drugs and cutthroat literary feuding while managing to retain the claustrophobic pathos of the original.

The American narrator of "The Other Rebecca" has just finished her first book of stories and is having difficulty beginning a novel when she meets and falls for Max Midwinter, dashing British poet and brooding widower of the sharp and talented Rebecca, whose posthumous autobiographical novel viciously skewered her in-laws and husband.

The Midwinter family latches onto Max's new wife, a timid thing easily swayed and subsumed by the capable and meddlesome Aunt Bea, the fanatical Danny who worships Rebecca's memory and the two mistrustful children. A new biography linking Max to Rebecca's death plunges him into depression and alcohol, alienating him from his new wife whose ineffectual attempts to help backfire with unerring devastation. Freely's narrative echoes DuMaurier's with a modern day wryness, wit and black-humored feminism.

this is a great book, i would really recommend it!