A review by balancinghistorybooks
The Breaking Point: Short Stories by Sally Beauman, Daphne du Maurier

4.0

I love Daphne du Maurier’s books, and her short stories are especially powerful. This collection, also published as The Blue Lenses and Other Stories, promises ‘eight stories which explore the half-forgotten world of childhood fantasies and subtle dreams’. This quote, coupled with the tales in The Birds and Other Stories, the first of du Maurier’s story collections which I read, made me hope for rather a dark and memorable collection, and that, I am pleased to say, is exactly what I was met with. Each plotline throughout was surprising, and the twists and turns made me unable to guess what was about to happen. The tales were startling and full of power, and I very much enjoyed them all for different reasons.