On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust.
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Daphne du Maurier has no equal Sunday Telegraph A true classic Amazon.com Jamaica Inn is perhaps the most accomplished historical romance ever written Good Book Guide Jamaica Inn is a first-rate page-turner. The Times
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Daphne du Maurier, daughter of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier, was born in London and educated at home and in Paris. Most of her novels have been bestsellers and many of them have been made into film. She died in 1989.
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Daphne du Maurier was born in 1906 and educated at home and in Paris. She began writing in 1928, and many of her bestselling novels were set in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life. She was made a DBE in 1969 and died in 1989.
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For those of you who have never read DuMaurier, you're missing out on the adventure and intrigue of days gone by. I myself visited the actual Jamaica Inn last year in Launceton, England, and felt the undercurrents of the dark events that once took place there. Just great reading.
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