The Best Daphne Du Maurier Books | Five Books Expert Recommendations

She's one of the most important and most neglected 20th-century writers - hugely popular and bestselling but often underrated. At the moment, she's enjoying a resurgence of interest and starting to be critically recognised for her talent. Apart from several short stories published at the end of the 1920s, du Maurier's writing career really began with her first novel, The Loving Spirit (1931), and she continued writing right up until the publication of her last novel in 1972, Rule Britannia. So her career spans a wide temporal range across the twentieth century.