Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-19892018
Inspired by a grisly discovery in the 19th century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca.Set in the 17th century, it tells the story of a country and a family riven by civil war, and features one of fiction's most o...