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Jamaica Inn

Daphne du Maurier · 1936

320 pages

After her mother's death, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt at Jamaica Inn on the bleak Bodmin Moor. Her uncle keeps the inn closed to travellers and answers to dangerous men from the coast. Mary must work out what her one remaining family is hiding before the moor and its secrets close over her.

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Windswept Moors, Gothic, Creeping Dread, Forbidden Love

Content warnings: abuse

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