The coast: a novel about the Dumorye family. Dumoria D.

Daphne Dumorye published the novelized story of her family in 1937, at the age of thirty. The writer was on the verge of fame: the novel “The Tractor of the Jamaica” has already been released, and only a year later, Rebecca will be published, its main world bestseller.

, plunging into the atmosphere of Europe of the nineteenth century, the writer recreates the life of her Anglo -Frantsuz’s ancestors -from a great -great -grandmother, mistress of the Duke of York, to the grandfather, the famous novelist and artist George Dumorye.

“The history is full of violent events and formidable blows of fate - there is a missing husband, there is a scandal and trial - but they are all filed in the form of a romantic comedy and incredibly entertaining”, as stated in the preface to the English publication. Daphne Dumoria has always studied the characters and fate of people with excitement, the mysterious threads, which the present is associated with the past, invariably discovering “ghosts everywhere - not pale phantoms, rattling chains through eternity... squeezing the floorboards in empty houses, but funny shadows of the former”... < /p>