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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349006581

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 16th July 2015

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery / Classic Crime

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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 Yellan crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica Inn. Her mother’s dying wish was that she take refuge there with her Aunt Patience. But when Mary arrives, the warning of the coachman echoes in her mind. Jamaica Inn has a desolate power and behind its crumbling walls, Patience is a changed woman, cowering before her brooding, violent husband.

When Mary discovers the inn’s dark secrets, the truth is more terrifying than anything she could possibly imagine and she is forced to collude in her uncle’s murderous schemes. Against her will, she finds herself powerfully attracted to her uncle’s brother, a man she dares 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. This was also made into a film, also called Jamaica Inn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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A perfect fusion of gothic romance and a young woman's rite of passage in the vein of Twilight and Wuthering Heights
Emma Frost, Independent
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
Julie Myerson, Guardian
Jamaica Inn is a first-rate page-turner
The Times
Daphne du Maurier has no equal
Sunday Telegraph
A dark tale. A brilliant thriller
Daily Express
Jamaica Inn is perhaps the most accomplished historical romance ever written
Good Book Guide
A perfect fusion of gothic romance and a young woman's rite of passage in the vein of Twilight and Wuthering Heights
Independent
A dark tale. A brilliant thriller
Daily Express
Jamaica Inn is a first-rate page-turner
The Times