Re-read details:Mary travels to windswept Bodmin Moor, unaware of the dark secrets that await her. Stars Susannah Corbett and Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 3:00pm Monday 23rd November 2009Duration:60 minutes
Bummer! For me this was a mostly disappointing and tedious read. Maybe it’s unfair, but I had really high expectations based on my love of Rebecca - Du Maurier’s most famous work. Very little actually happens in the first ¾ of the novel and I found Mary Yellen to be one of the most bland and unap...
i wish i could say i liked this more, but jamaica inn is too conventional a du maurier for my tastes: too much of a bodice-ripping gothic yarn. i like her when she's weirder, and creepier. this was too on the nose: i knew who the master criminal was immediately, and was annoyed at the ending.
The most lovable cliché I've ever had the pleasure to read. The isolated old inn in the middle of dark, dreary moors, oh, poetic justice. But the twists! I knew there would be twists, and I kind of guessed, but oh! Lovely lovely.
This rancid mess is supposed to be a classic?! The attempt at 19th century prose falls flat..."like a dead thing." Good god. It has all the writerly skill of a romance novel, and a boring one at that. With midnight-smuggling and murder lurking behind a thinly-veiled mystery, I expected "THRILLS and ...
(4.5) A spooky, gothic tale perfect for a stormy October night. "Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us." Why I have waited so many years to read more of Du Maurier's books I'll never know, but there are definitely more o...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
