The Spectator, July 16th, 2005
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley - well, actually things became a blur of delights once my snoring conscience crossed the Tamar but it was Cornwall without doubt As Daphne du Maurier knew, there is no better place for thoughts to roam, for Cornwall was the Eden Project long before those bio-domes erupted on its surface like secular stigmata.
The county has been a romantic place since the dawn of Western civilisation. This is the Tin Islands of Herodotus; it is where Tristram, Iseult and King Mark invented the love triangle, thereby providing French novelists and filmmakers with an nexh...
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