Hello, I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. And I'm Tim McIntosh. And do we have a lot to live up to?

After the last episode, you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the incurable reader. And we have been discussing Daphne de Morier's novel, Rebecca.

We are at the end. We're going to discuss the last quarter of the book or so,

and then next week we will answer your questions. We also are going to do a movie episode.

So sometime in the next week or so, we will record a discussion about the newer Netflix one,

and then of course the classic Hitchcock movie. And we will discuss those and get that episode

up to you soon. So in the meantime,

we have the Q&A episode, which we'll do next week, which will go live one week from today.

So make sure to send in your questions on Facebook or on Instagram or via email. You can email

at probably the best way is just David at Goldberrybooks.com. You can also, of course, just post

them on the threads on social media. But we've come to the end. And Tim, last week, the internet

was all a Twitter, I don't know, a Twitter about the in the moment expressions of awe and wonder

that were flowing forth from your mouth.

Yes.

And then they also were interested in your surprise.

But what we need to know now is you're not going to experience great surprise at the end,

you know, on the episode, because you did get to the end, right?

I did. I did. Okay. So what, though, was your response when you got to the end?

What were the words that were coming at? What did your face look like?

I was not surprised. As soon as we saw the kind of false dawn on the drive back from London, I knew everything

that was going to happen or that had happened. And it was satisfying. It was really satisfying.

I thought it was like a very thrifty conclusion to the book. It hit all the right notes. I will say, though,

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