I have enjoyed reading some of Daphne du Maurier's books but knew little about her personally. There obviously was a lot of research done to establish facts about her life for this book. There was more than I wanted to know about her early years. Her adult years, with information about her marriage,her children, and her writing, made much more interesting reading. Her relationships and fascination with houses and places gave insight into what drove her storytelling.

There were many conversations and thoughts that were fiction, of course. In general, they seemed to fit the facts of her life. I enjoyed reading it but was left feeling that this was as much fiction as biography.