Book Review: Claire Seeber's 'Lullaby' Reinvents 'Rebecca'

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The "Rebecca" template is in place: a mousy younger wife in sexual thrall to an older and richer husband -- a handsome enigma of a man who has secrets squirreled away, not least among them a knockout rival of an ex-wife.

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