7/5/2023 0 Comments Jamaica inn du maurier![]() ![]() Plenty of modern authors dabble in historical fiction, but the setting often feels like a gimmick or opportunity to showcase period-related trivia. When I read a book set in the early 1800s, I want to have a sense of that time. ![]() And, as she struggles with events beyond her control, Mary is further thrown by her feelings for a man she dare not trust…. With the coachman’s warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives at a dismal place to find Patience a changed woman, cowering from her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn.Īffected by the Inn’s brooding power, Mary is thwarted in her attention to reform her aunt, and unwillingly drawn into the dark deeds of Joss and his accomplices. Her mother’s dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. This Goodreads blurb is fantastic because it not only captures the main drive of the plot, but the tone as well: For a book whose problems could be easily solved by a cell-phone, it has aged astonishingly well. You may see the end coming a mile away, but you’ll want to keep reading. That said, I don’t want to knock it too hard for its cliched elements as some of the set pieces might have been less tired 1936. The romantic and melodramatic elements are over the top it’s salacious, it’s predictable, and yet it’s so entertaining. Jamaica Inn is the most guilty-pleasure-y of the Daphne du Maurier books I’ve read. ![]()
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