The Woman in the Water

<P><B>'Unputdownable' JOSEPH O'CONNOR</B><br><br><B>'A roller coaster read' LIZ NUGENT</B><br><br><B>THEY WERE BEST FRIENDS. NOW THEY ARE MURDERER AND WITNESS.</B><br><br><B>At the heart of the classic novel </B><I><B>Rebecca</B></I><B> lies a mystery ...</B><br><br>Pearl Day has always lived in the background - companion to her childhood friend, the dazzling and unpredictable Lady Eleanor Nicholson. Their bond was forged at Alderleigh, Eleanor's crumbling country estate, but now they share a sleek London home where Eleanor's life of indulgence is spiralling into chaos.<br><br>When Eleanor shoots her lover in a drunken rage, Pearl becomes the key witness in a scandalous murder trial. But she knows more than she's revealed - and with Eleanor behind bars, she sees a chance to escape her quiet desperation. Their connection, once rooted in friendship, is now warped by grief, envy and power. And Eleanor's reach is long.<br><br>Set between 1930s London and the windswept Cornwall coast, this taut, gothic thriller dares to answer one of literature's abiding questions: in Daphne du Maurier's <I>Rebecca</I>, who is the woman in the water?<br><br><B>'Dark, twisty and gripping' SAM BLAKE</B></P>