An intimate, revelatory family biography of the iconic bestseller Daphne du Maurier, by her eldest surviving grandson. The life and works of Daphne du Maurier continue to beguile and fascinate readers across the world. Her blockbuster Rebecca has never been out of print since it was published. She has sold well over 35m books worldwide. She was a mistress of dark fiction and suspense - and one of the greatest storytellers of the last century. A fascinating, intimate, revelatory family memoir, The Du Mauriers will focus primarily on Daphne but also on her actor/manager father Gerald and caricaturist/novelist grandfather George, the greatest influences on her life and work, as well as a few key figures further back, including Mary Anne Clarke, Daphne''s great great grandmother, mistress to The Duke of York, King George III''s younger brother. Paul de Zulueta, Daphne''s eldest surviving grandchild, has access to private papers and letters sent to Daphne as well as the archives at Exeter University. In addition, he has found many unpublished family photographs and will be interviewing other family members and those influenced by Daphne''s work.

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Paul de Zulueta is Daphne du Maurier's eldest surviving grandchild, and son of Tessa, Daphne's elder daughter. Inspired by the memory of Daphne's husband, 'Boy' Browning's, distinguished military career, Paul spent his early 20s in the army. He then developed a career in adult education and personal development. Paul started writing in his early 50s and has written obituaries for The Times, book reviews for the Spectator and is a contributing editor to the Household Division Journal. He has written two books published by Osprey Bloomsbury: Peace, War and Whitehall (ghosted memoirs for Field Marshal Lord Guthrie, Tony Blair's chief of defence staff) and Those Must be The Guards (the authorised history of the Household Division 1969- 2023 with a Foreword by The Princess Royal).