Original sentence: "Parasites, that's what you are.Between Maria and Niall there existed a strange affinity--sometimes physical, sometimes spiritual.Celia their sister, generous and charming, took care of their father and delighted in Maria's children.In this novel, Miss du Maurier tells the story of the Delaney family.Maria Delaney was a beautiful, successful actress, the wife of Sir Charles Wyndham.Niall Delaney wrote the songs and melodies that everyone sang and played.Nothing can change you.Perhaps it was this that impelled Maria's husband to exclaim bitterly:.The three of you.They were both subtly aware of it, and so was Sir Charles.You always have been and you always will be.You are doubly, triply parasitic; first, because you've traded since childhood on that seed of talent you had the luck to inherit from your fantastic forebears; secondly, because none of you have done a stroke of honest work in your lives but batten on us, the fool public; and thirdly, because you prey on each other, living in a world of fantasy which bears no relation to anything in heaven or on earth
Edited sentence: In this brilliant novel--her first contemporary story since Rebecca--Miss du Maurier tells with devastating wit and sharp irony the story of the fabulous Dalaneys