On the author's trail with cheap flights to Newquay

People planning to make the most of the UK summer weather this year by booking cheap flights to Newquay for a week of sunbathing and surfing could also have a cultural experience while on their break.

Justine Picardie, in an article for the Times, explains that Cornwall was the stomping ground of the author and playwright Daphne du Maurier.

Some of Ms du Maurier's novels included Rebecca - with the adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock winning the Best Picture Oscar in 1941 - and Jamaica Inn, while she also wrote the short stories Don't Look Now and The Birds.

The Cornish mansion Menabilly was to go on to inspire the author to create Manderley in Rebecca, the property that the heroine moves to with her new husband shortly after they marry.

According to Ms Picardie, the writer had declared that her heart belonged to Cornwall.

"To explore the Cornish countryside setting of Daphne du Maurier's romantic Frenchman's Creek, choose a sunny summer's day when the waters of the Helford Estuary flash like pirate gold," Ms Picardie advises.

Indeed, travellers who book cheap flights to Newquay this summer could find that Cornwall inspires them just as much as it once influenced the celebrated author.

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