{"product_id":"2026600003127-secondhand-my-cousin-rachel","title":"My Cousin Rachel","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterwork of Gothic suspense, My Cousin Rachel chronicles the obsession of young Philip Ashley, who becomes dangerously enthralled by the beautiful and enigmatic Rachel — the widow of his beloved guardian and cousin Ambrose, whose mysterious death in Italy Philip suspects she may have caused. Du Maurier constructs a brilliantly unreliable narrative, placing the reader inside Philip's increasingly fevered mind as he swings between adoration and accusation, never allowing certainty to take hold. The novel presents Rachel as one of literature's most compelling ambiguous figures: charming, intelligent, and utterly unreadable, she may be an innocent woman wrongly suspected or a calculating poisoner — and Du Maurier refuses to resolve the tension. Written with atmospheric precision and a brooding, psychological intensity, the story illustrates how desire can corrupt judgment and how the truth, once buried, may never fully surface.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48792195399899,"sku":"2026600003127-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0459f499-99aa-4087-ba63-a536988eedc2.png?v=1779273248","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600003127-secondhand-my-cousin-rachel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}