Reviews round-up
The Housekeeper
by Rose Tremain
3 of 4 critics positive
5 reviews: 3 positives, 1 pan; 1 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
Positive
Read the review ↗“smart, simmering sapphic love story”
The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain
Positive
Read the review ↗“This inventive work of meta-fiction imagines Daphne du Maurier’s famous novel”
Rose Tremain’s riposte to Rebecca
Positive
Read the review ↗“sly, sexy, Rebecca-inspired novel”
Mrs Danvers was gay! Rose Tremain’s sly, sexy, Rebecca-inspired novel
Pan
Read the review ↗“a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca”
The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain review – a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca
Verdict not stated
Read the review ↗Making mischief with du Maurier: Rose Tremain reimagines the roots of Rebecca
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
