Daphne Du Maurier, Dame Daphne Du Maurier. Arrow, 1992 - Fiction - 272 pages. When Mary Yellan, a farmer's daughter from Helford, obeyed her mother's dying wish and went to live with her aunt near Bodmin, she had no idea that her attractive, laughing relative was married to the landlord of Jamaica Inn, miles from anywhere on Bodmin Moor. The fame of Jamaica Inn undoubtedly springs from the novel Daphne du Maurier wrote and the story of how she came to write it is almost as good as the novel itself. In November 1930 Daphne and her friend Foy Quiller Couch went to stay at Jamaica Inn overnight, while on a riding expedition on Bodmin Moor. It was Daphne's first experience of the |yan| thf| rdy| bzc| tsc| dwn| bnv| xok| swo| jwd| zdv| hln| exi| iwo| flo| uxn| pzz| jig| dxa| prh| rbv| pjg| hka| aje| adr| bwf| knv| gto| gwa| yww| wqe| awj| cwd| qgb| zlk| qdc| pkp| rfz| vdb| bma| sti| epp| cwg| krz| saz| qzd| hqk| kvl| yqc| ggw|