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DiS Bookclub #11 ~ Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Jamaica Inn tells the story of the 23-year-old Mary Yellan, brought up on a farm in Helford in the early 1800s, but who is forced to go and live with her Aunt Patience after Mary's mother dies. Patience is the wife of the keeper of Jamaica Inn, Joss Merlyn. On her arrival at the gloomy and threatening inn, she finds her aunt under the thumb of the vicious Joss, and soon realizes that something unusual is afoot at the inn, which has no guests and is never open to the public. Mary tries to squeeze the truth out of her uncle during one of his benders, but he tells her, "I'm not drunk enough to tell you why I live in this God-forgotten spot, and why I'm the landlord of Jamaica Inn."
Well, it's not going to blow minds or anything. Just a bit of an adventure story really. I chose it because I'm going there in a couple of weeks, that's all.
I started it the other day. Bit of a page-turner, some real nice sentences and Joss is well good.