D du Maurier

"Once she wrote to woman with whom she had fallen in love, asking her to imagine 'D du M as a little girl... growing up with a boy's mind and a boy's heart. And then the boy realised he had to grow up and not be a boy any longer, so he turned into a girl, and not an unattractive one at that, and the boy was locked in a box forever.
'D du M wrote her books, and had young men, and later a husband, and children, and a lover, and... when she found times and let the phantom, who was neither girl nor boy but disembodied spirit, dance in the evening when there was no one to see."

Introduction by Celia Brayfield 2003

"The House On The Strand" by Daphne du Maurier