A collection of stories that demonstrates Du Maurier’s creativity and vision. ‘Don’t Look Now’ includes ‘The Birds’ on which Alfred Hitchcock’s film was based; apparently the author hated Hitchcock’s interpretation, and he did change the location from the straitened postwar circumstances of Cornwall to trendy Monterrey in the 1960s. Many of these stories explore cognitive dissonance: a woman returns from a walk to find strangers living comfortably in her house and, in another story, a patient wakes up after eye surgery to a world where people’s hidden traits are made plain on their faces. These unwelcome surprises seem to point to a world in which women’s roles in particular are in flux and they’re not sure themselves how to make sense of the changes. I enjoyed the surreality of some of these, so different from all the other Du Maurier novels I’ve read.