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

3.0

The introduction to this short story collection hinted that this wasn’t Du Maurier’s best work, which I definitely do have to agree with. ‘The Alibi’ was really interesting and gave me food for thought, but the story why I’d bought this collection in the first place (‘The Blue Lenses’) wasn’t all that interesting. I’ve read The Rendevouz and The Birds collections by now, so maybe that’s why it didn’t manage to shock me much. I didn’t quite get ‘the Pool’ and I had to look up what a chamois is, so maybe I just didn’t ‘get’ it. But I have enjoyed her previous works and none of these were up to that same standard; the twist here was usually predictable or a bit of a letdown. Mostly just glad to have read this now.