“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited.”
‘Rebecca’ Daphne du Maurier 
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Try one of these 1st paras & discover a new author:-
‘Sacred Hearts’ by Sarah Dunant
‘The Sea The Sea’ by Iris Murdoch
‘True Grit’ by Charles Portis

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