Hungry Hill

by Daphne du Maurier

Overview

The story of a deadly curse that afflicted an Irish family for a hundred years from the renowned author of the classic gothic romance, Rebecca.
"I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you." So curses Morty Donovan when Copper John Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill.
The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks' success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by rights. For generations the feud between the families has simmered, always threatening to break into violence . . .

"As poignant and powerful as du Maurier's better-known romantic fiction." —Daily Mail

 "A storyteller of cunning and genius." —Sally Beauman, #1 New York Times-bestselling author

"Daphne du Maurier has no rival." —The Sunday Telegraph

"Du Maurier is a magician, a virtuoso. She can conjure up tragedy, horror, tension, suspense the ridiculous, the vain, the romantic." —Good Housekeeping 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316253543
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	09/24/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	549
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) was born in London, the daughter of the actor Sir Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of the author and artist George du Maurier. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, but it would be her fifth novel, Rebecca, that made her one of the most popular authors of her day.
Besides novels, du Maurier wrote plays, biographies, and several collections of short fiction. Many of her works were made into films, including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, My Cousin Rachel, "Don't Look Now," and "The Birds." She lived most of her life in Cornwall, and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1969.