![]() The clock ticks like a dying man who cannot catch his breath, and the wooden sign creaks like an animal in pain. ![]() The inn is at different times described as steeped in suffering, like a live thing but at the same time has a cold, dead atmosphere. ![]() ![]() Isolated and eerie, the place in itself is a character. Jamaica Inn (an actual real-life inn, by the way) is set in the middle of the moors in a remote part of Cornwall. There is a particularly spooky, gothic vibe to this book, starting with the description of the place. I went into this book with high expectations since her most famous book – Rebecca, was one of my all-time favorites.ĭid this book meet my expectations? Well, yes and no. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls – or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother’s dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn.įrom her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn’s dark power. The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. ![]()
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