My Cousin Rachel is a superb study of that cancer of the human mind -suspiciousness. This magnificent novel may well enjoy an even longer life than Rebecca, just because it is intensely concerned with the character of people. The setting of Rebecca was a great Cornish house, proudly called Manderley, but the narrator - the 'heroine' - never received a name: but in My Cousin Rachel it is the house which is never named.There, somewhere in Cornwall, at some time in the last century, little unspectacular events gradually and grimly mount to the proportions of a modern Othello. At every page up to the last the reader is asking: 'What will happen?' and long after the book is closed the debate in the mind continues: 'Was Rachel a fiend? Was Philip mad?'