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The scapegoat du maurier5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, his French companion has stolen his identity and disappeared. Their resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking – until at last John, the Englishman, falls into a drunken stupor. In her role as a spinner of tales, Daphne du Maurier has few equals, and this, which in any other hands would be a fantastically unbelievable yarn, holds the spellbound reader with a mounting conviction that so it might have been. ’Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, „ Je vous demande pardon,” and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.īy chance, two men – one English, the other French – meet in a provincial railway station. The Scapegoat tells the story of an Englishman who crosses paths with a Frenchman of near-identical appearance and, through a bizarre set of circumstances, ends up assuming his identity. ![]() ![]() ’What a magnificent thriller this is’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ![]()
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