![]() But on the death of her mother, she cannot continue to manage their farm single-handedly. This is an unforgiving landscape, certainly not the pleasant farmland community of ‘shining waters … green hills and sloping valleys’ that was home to our heroine Mary Yellan for 23 years of her life. ![]() It’s set in a dilapidated Cornish coaching inn, on a lonely road between Bodmin and Launceston, a place surrounded by treacherous marshes and high tors. Written in 1935 but set in the early 19th century, Jamaica Inn is a fast-paced drama full of murder, paranoia, violence and sexual threats. Surely the woman considered a master of the art of telling suspenseful stories with sinister overtones couldn’t disappoint a second time? I’m happy to report that she didn’t. I was expecting far more suspense and menace but though the book promised so much in this direction, ultimately for me it failed to deliver.īut I had another of her novels sitting unread on my bookshelves Jamaica Inn. Unfortunately it proved a deeply unsatisfying experience. Such has proved to be the case with Daphne du Maurier, an author I first encountered via My Cousin Rachel. ![]() Sometimes it pays to give an author a second - or even a third - chance. ![]()
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