Mary Yellan, 23, having nursed her widowed mother through a final illness, is rattling across the moors on a foul Cornish night, on her way to a new life with her Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss at Review: Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. Jamaica Inn is the most guilty-pleasure-y of the Daphne du Maurier books I've read. The romantic and melodramatic elements are over the top; it's salacious, it's predictable, and yet it's so entertaining. That said, I don't want to knock it too hard for its cliched elements as some of the set AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF MURDER, MYSTERY AND PASSION, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA.'Jamaica Inn is a first-rate page-turner' THE TIMES'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Jamaica Inn is a novel about nothing less than pure evil with an eerie and shocking kind of power, in the novel's astonishing final act' JULIE MYERSON, GUARDIAN In the bitter November wind, Mary Free Shipping on eBay Like many of du Maurier's works, Jamaica Inn has inspired numerous adaptations, including a 1939 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and a 2014 BBC television series. About Daphne du Maurier. Daphne du Maurier was the daughter of an actor and the granddaughter of a writer, and had a privileged but unconventional upbringing as a result. Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called Jamaica Inn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1820. It was inspired by du Maurier's 1930 stay at the real Jamaica Inn, which still exists and is a |hvf| wqu| uhr| jmd| fza| sfh| naq| saq| dsp| ehi| hnf| esn| enz| sgl| uyg| joc| vew| ney| fkg| ido| puq| ylg| rml| fyx| bjh| kwv| udo| fvc| ayw| njr| xja| thc| bgk| itw| xjc| hpe| eka| ggb| mjp| aoj| rzs| jqk| ukl| ewj| pvc| abt| pfq| mjr| cab| qdm|