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Jamaica Inn
By (Author) Daphne Du Maurier
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
26th June 2012
3rd May 2012
United Kingdom
Hardback
320
Width 135mm, Height 199mm, Spine 28mm
450g
Her mother's dying request obliges Mary Yellan to make a grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn.
With the coachman's warning echoing in her mind and affected by the inn's brooding power, Mary is thwarted in her intention to help her aunt. She finds herself drawn unwillingly into the misdeeds of Joss and his accomplices and even more disturbing are her feelings for a man she dare not trust...JAMAICA INN is a dark and gripping gothic tale that will remind readers of two other great classics, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) was born in London, educated at home and in Paris and lived much of her life in her beloved Cornwall, the setting for many of her novels. Most of her novels have been bestsellers and many have been made into films. She is considered one of the most accomplished novelists of the twentieth century.