![]() For this reason, I preferred The Birds and Don’t Look Now, which I felt were more even in quality. I enjoyed this book, but I found the first three stories by far the strongest and some of the others slightly disappointing in comparison. Whether the link survives or snaps, the reader must judge for himself. In this collection of stories, men, women, children and a nation are brought to the breaking-point. When this happens, it is as though a link between emotion and reason is stretched to the limit of endurance, and sometimes snaps. ![]() There comes a moment in the life of every individual when reality must be faced. There is a paragraph just before the introduction in my Virago edition of the book which gives an idea of the common theme linking the stories and why the title The Breaking Point was chosen: Originally published in 1959 and written at a time when du Maurier herself said she had been close to a nervous breakdown, the eight stories in this collection are particularly dark and unsettling. ![]() Having enjoyed some of Daphne du Maurier’s other short story collections – The Birds and Other Stories, The Rendezvous and Other Stories and Don’t Look Now and Other Stories – I’ve been looking forward to reading this one. ![]()
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