Miriam Atkinson
I've loved this book for many years, the atmospheric descriptions of the countryside and the tension of the characters alongside the twists and turns of the plot. I loved the unnamed heroine and identified with her completely

Jo Fletcher
I read Rebecca as a teenager and saw a production at the theatre at Westcliff on Sea 196something. It was wonderful and I have loved theatregoing ever since

Jane Lea
I read Rebecca aged 12 or 13 when class room reading was Dickens and John Buchan. My Mother encouraged me to read it as she loved Daphne Du Maurier and I was entranced from the iconic beginning and went on to devour as many of her books as I could find. I think it just spoke to me so much more than Dickens and Hardy and when at seventeen We as a family visited Cornwall I felt a very strong connection with the countryside.

collins, MORAG
Can be read over and over, but both wives had had a good and bad influence on a powerful man.

Anne Nugent
I read Rebecca when I was about 18 and identified utterly with the heroine. I felt the description of the household, the unnamed fear and gawky naivety of the heroine was so well portrayed, and that opening sentence was so perfect. I think the novel captured a generation of women who were naive, and because of circumstances were thrust into situations quite out of their normal environment. I loved the story then, I love it still.

Fabienne Poulet
I have always beeen torn between wanting to be Rebecca and hating her:-)

anne
I mourned for Manderley, the lost backdrop to this story, even as I willed the unnamed heroine on!

Liz Boyd
The allure of the scenery, the distant but obviously sexy Maximillian and the awful Mrs Danvers, all of them with a secret - Rebecca. I always wanted to call my future daughter Rebecca until I knew the story - she was a hussy! I loved this book when I was a teenager.

Tanya Rhodes
I first read this at 13 when the BBC drama was on and I re-read it every couple of years or so. I wanted to be the heroine and not make the mistakes she made. I felt for her and Maxim de Winter stirred my first romantic feelings into being!

Helen Bourne
I love the protagonist of this story, even though I want to slap her into action occasionally. I think this is truly one of the most original novels I've ever read, probably because the unnamed heroine seems so realistic to me. I can understand her feelings, and find it curious to note her perceptions which later turn out to be mistaken. It's interesting how she and Rebecca are so different but in such similar circumstances. I didn't like Rebecca at all, but felt sad for the heroine, who seemed to have everything decided for her. It's funny that Sally Beauman, in her introduction to one edition of Rebecca, claimed that the absent character of Rebecca is the most memorable. I disagree entirely - I found the heroine much more interesting.

Nahla Aabulfateh
I'm in love with this novel, I read more than twenty times. My project in the college was about this novel, I translated it to Arabic laguage and it was perfect ! as my instructer announced .

Rebecca Merrill
I loved Rebecca, her attitude, the legacy she left behind...shame she got killed off!

Carrie Ramsay
For a young teenager in the Antipodies - such power

Katie Newell
I wanted to be Rebecca and was frightened that I might be the second wife!

Nicola Marriott
It made me realise that different sorts of women wield different types of power.

Clare Allison
I think we can all be guilty of becoming obsessed with an ideal and not enjoying life because we believe the grass is always greener.