Dr Patrick Newberry – Vanishing Cornwall

Daphne du Maurier’s Vanishing Cornwall is a wonderful love letter to the land that she loved. Written at a difficult time for her, when she was recovering from the death of her beloved husband and trying to avoid having to leave her adored Menabilly, it paints a sensitive and thoughtful picture of the essence of Cornwall and its spirit. Dr Patrick Newberry will explore the book’s origins, its component parts, what it tells us about Daphne’s relationship with this enchanted place, and makes the case that it deserves to be recognised as one of the best twentieth–century studies of Cornwall.