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The creator of Rebecca and Frenchman’s Creek first made her reputation as a writer with this brutally frank biography of her father.
Gerald du Maurier was one of the last actor-managers in the British theatre and the founder of a new naturalistic school of acting. In this compelling portrait, his daughter describes in detail his successful West End acting career and his years as manager of Wyndham’s theatre in London.
Her book contains some wonderful comic passages, but is most remarkable for its deep psychological insights into her father’s character. A needy man who hated to be alone, he was…
From Jonathan's list on books about a father by his son or daughter.
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