Rebecca's Tale is told by Ellie Julyan, the Colonel's youngest daughter, who cares for her father at home. The narrative shifts produce a very different structure from the original "Rebecca", as well as a more postmodern tone that emphasizes the various narrators' unreliability. Also, the book is sometimes placed in a separate genre: while "Rebecca" is classified as a Gothic novel (du Maurier detested its categorization as a romance), "Rebecca’s Tale" is often considered a mystery. "Rebecca’s Tale" continues twenty years after du Maurier's conclusion and begins with the same classic line: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Most
The Rose of Tibet is set at the time of the Chinese invasion in 1950. Graham Greene said of the novel: "I hadn’t realised how much I had missed the genuine adventure story until I read "The Rose of Tibet"", while Daphne du Maurier wrote: 'It has all the excitement of "King Solomon's Mines"' Author Barry Gifford considers this book the one he wishes he had written. He has written about it in his collection of essays "The Cavalry Charges" and has called it 'a genuine work of literature. I was immediately charmed by the device Davidson employed to entice the reader into believing