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
No human being could live in this wasted country and remain like other people; the very children would be born twisted . . .
After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. But she finds Patience a changed woman, cowering before her domineering, vicious husband Joss. Behind its crumbling walls, the inn harbours a dark secret – and Mary is soon dragged into a dangerous world of smuggling and murder. Disturbed by her powerful attraction to Joss’s younger brother, and in fear of her life, Mary is forced to cross her own moral line to save herself.
‘The author’s stunning evocation of her beloved Cornwall is the real star of this book’ RUTH WARE
‘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
No human being could live in this wasted country and remain like other people; the very children would be born twisted . . .
After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. But she finds Patience a changed woman, cowering before her domineering, vicious husband Joss. Behind its crumbling walls, the inn harbours a dark secret – and Mary is soon dragged into a dangerous world of smuggling and murder. Disturbed by her powerful attraction to Joss’s younger brother, and in fear of her life, Mary is forced to cross her own moral line to save herself.
‘The author’s stunning evocation of her beloved Cornwall is the real star of this book’ RUTH WARE
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Reviews
A dark tale. A brilliant thriller
Daphne du Maurier has no equal
A perfect fusion of gothic romance and a young woman's rite of passage in the vein of Twilight and Wuthering Heights
For, ultimately, Jamaica Inn is a novel about nothing less than pure evil. Not the lumpen, drunken, thuggish evil that men like Joss can effect, but something much worse - a force that Du Maurier only begins to put into words, with an eerie and shocking kind of power, in the novel's astonishing final act
A dark tale. A brilliant thriller
Jamaica Inn is a first-rate page-turner
Jamaica Inn is perhaps the most accomplished historical romance ever written
