In du Maurier’s version, the scene is Cornwall and it is farm hand Nat who first realises the danger. I think if anything this version is more chilling than the movie. I used to love The Birds movie from Alfred Hitchcock which I watched as a teenager which still to this day makes me wary of walking past flocks of birds! So I was keen to read the original story on which it is based. The mountain paradise of ‘Monte Verità’ promises immortality, but at a terrible price a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject’s life a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery and a jealous father finds a remedy when three’s a crowd. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man’s sense of dominance over the natural world. We always make suggestions and then vote and The Birds by Daphne du Maurier was chosen which was my choice as it has been on my shelf unread for 5 years!Ī classic of alienation and horror, ‘The Birds’ was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. Having previously followed the Chichester Libraries Reading Challenge, this year the Shoreham by Sea book club is borrowing ideas from a few different challenges for our themes! For March the theme was short stories. Originally published: 1952 (This edition 2004) The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
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