New Girl by Paige Harbison is a modern take on Daphne Du Maurier's classic Rebecca. Although it's been quite a while since I read it, I did love the spookily romantic novel Rebecca.
In Du Maurier's novel the new Mrs. De Winter comes to her husband's home unaware that she will be haunted by the ever presence of the shadowy character of Rebecca, the first wife, gone, but not forgotten. It's chillingly and romantic and suspenseful. Mrs. De Winter must endure loneliness and confusion and constant comparisons while trying to assert her own prescense into the creepy estate of Manderly.
Paige Harbision does try hard to add some of these same elements to New Girl. We have the new girl to "Manderly", in this adaptation a castle like boarding school, being haunted by the shadow of her predecessor Becca. A girl to whom the whole school things she's trying to live up to. There's a sinister roommate taking the place of the sinister housekeeper and a young stud named Max taking the place of Du Maurier's character, the husband Maxim.
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