Henrietta McKervey
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Henrietta McKervey

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I’ve always been fascinated by unsolved literary puzzles. None more so than one at the heart of the Daphne du Maurier classic novel Rebecca. I first read Rebecca when I was a teenager and was instantly captivated. In it, Max de Winter has identified the body of a woman found at sea as that of his missing wife Rebecca – but it is not her, as becomes clear. Every time I re-read the book, I found myself thinking about the fate of that poor drowned woman, and what her own story might have been. That became the inspiration for my novel The Woman in the Water, a psychological suspense set in 1936 in the glamorous world of society London and a country estate on the Cornwall coast. Two women go from being childhood friends to murderer and witness, their bond warped by grief, envy and power. Rebecca was my inspiration; readers don’t need to be familiar with du Maurier’s novel to read and enjoy The Woman in the Water. My previous novels are: A Talented Man, about a forged sequel to Dracula; Violet Hill, the story of two unusual female detectives who work the same case a hundred years apart; The Heart of Everything, about three estranged adult children forced to reunite when their mother mysteriously disappears; and What Becomes Of Us, set at the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising.
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