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Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier
This is the first du Maurier novel I've read, and it didn't disappoint. I chose this because I planned to visit Bodmin Moor as well as the real Jamaica Inn later this year if the Coronavirus allows. I also never like to read whatever is supposedly an author's best novel (in du Maurier's case, Rebecca) first, because it's nice to think "this is pretty good, and there's apparently a better one, too."
There is a lot of action and suspense packed into this novel. The main character is a young woman named Mary Yellan who, at the start of the book, is going to live with her aunt and her aunt's husband after her mother's death. This sets off a story that could have been a book in the Series of Unfortunate Events.
I was prepared to be disappointed due to the book's age and the possibility of a woman who was too much of a goody-two-shoes or that the story would be told from a domestic/gossip view. This was not the case at all, but there were nevertheless different outdated views on show (all forgivable though, and possibly explainable due to the book being set in the early 1800s).
There is a lot of action and suspense packed into this novel. The main character is a young woman named Mary Yellan who, at the start of the book, is going to live with her aunt and her aunt's husband after her mother's death. This sets off a story that could have been a book in the Series of Unfortunate Events.
I was prepared to be disappointed due to the book's age and the possibility of a woman who was too much of a goody-two-shoes or that the story would be told from a domestic/gossip view. This was not the case at all, but there were nevertheless different outdated views on show (all forgivable though, and possibly explainable due to the book being set in the early 1800s).