The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain review – a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca

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The novelist has expanded her devastating 2014 short story about an imagined affair between Daphne du Maurier and a fictional Polish-Jewish housekeeper The rollcall of notable novels that began life as short stories is surprisingly long and various.

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  • The novelist has expanded her devastating 2014 short story about an imagined affair between Daphne du Maurier and a fictional Polish-Jewish housekeeper The rollcall of notable novels that began life as short stories is surprisingly long and various.
  • Reported by The Guardian and published Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:00:51 UTC.

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