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An enchanting psychological thriller about a man who unwittingly swaps lives with a wealthy doppelganger. Set in provincial France in the 1950s, this picturesque tale is full of charm and mystery yet at its heart, is about familial and romantic love. It was made into a film in 1959 with Alec Guinness and remade in 2012. One of du Maurier's more warming reads!
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"Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon,' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself." Two men-one English, the other French-meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. Over the course of a long evening, they…