Rebecca

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” So begins Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 gothic masterpiece, narrated by a shy young woman who marries a wealthy widower and arrives at his grand estate only to find it ruled by the memory of his glamorous first wife, Rebecca. Suspenseful and psychologically rich, it has never gone out of print. Taylor Swift has named it as the inspiration for her song “tolerate it,” drawn to its portrait of a woman trying to love someone who merely tolerates her.