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Plot Synopsis:
Based on personal letters and biographies, this
story focuses on Daphne du Maurier’s struggle with
unrequited passion and her sexuality and shows how
this inner turmoil informed and influenced her writing.
Set just after the Second World War and between
the Rebecca trial and the completion of My Cousin
Rachel, the story focuses on the time that Daphne met
the beautiful and glamorous American heiress Ellen
Doubleday, the wife of her publisher Nelson Doubleday.
The film reveals how her obsession with this forbidden
love led to her writing the play September Tide. And it
was also during this time that she met irreverent and
fun-loving actress Gertrude Lawrence – a meeting
which led to a life-changing but ultimately doomed love
affair.
Daphne called herself ‘a boy in a box’ and this drama
shows how Daphne’s incendiary love life informed the
writing of her compelling stories. Evoking the spirit of
classic cinema, this elegant and engaging drama tells
the story of one of the 20th Century’s most well-known
women writers.
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