A review by heyheybooks
The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier

3.0

Maybe 2.5 stars? I definitely have mixed feelings about this, and it being her first novel, I wasn’t expecting much. I did like it more the further it went, but the first half was kind of awkward - an old timey narrative voice that doesn’t quite feel right, plus the mother son relationship that is described in romantic and sensual terms (which I knew to expect at some point in Du Maurier’s work, from reading her bio and learning about her similar relationship with her father.) Once we got to London things started picking up and the last character was my favorite. I did really enjoy seeing Du Maurier’s influences that pop up in Rebecca come in to play here - the locale and sailing, even destruction by fire. I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone except die hard Du Maurier fans.