A new departure for Miss du Maurier, and one, I am afraid, that will be a disappointment to her readers who have come to expect fast-paced, tense stories of character and action. This is instead the story of the effect of external natural forces on four generations of one family, the Brodricks, Irish landed gentry and owners of prosperous copper and tin mines. Two men of the family, the John. Hungry Hill is Daphne du Maurier's seventh novel. Whilst there are now 33 printed editions, it was an instant best-seller in and is based on the Irish ancestors of du Maurier's close acquaintance, Christopher Puxley. Hungry Hill is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in It was her seventh novel; 33 editions have since been printed, the last in In , it was published in the UK by Gollancz and by Doubleday in the US.
Hungry Hill is a family saga of epic proportions, based on the Irish ancestors of Daphne du Maurier's friend Christopher Puxley. The story spans the years and follows the lives of five generations of a family of Irish landowners called Brodrick who live in a castle called Clonmere in Southern Ireland. Very Good. The British author Du Maurier ( - ) wrote historical romance novels that always included a bit of mystery; she is most famous for "Rebecca" from Hungry Hill was published in ; the sale volume is a later printing with shown on the title page. Green cloth binding with black lettering and decoration on spine only. Hungry Hill is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in It was her seventh novel; 33 editions have since been printed, the last in In , it was published in the UK by Gollancz and by Doubleday in the US.
Hungry Hill is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in It was her seventh novel. There have been 33 editions of the book printed. This family saga is based on the history of the Irish ancestors of Daphne du Maurier’s friend Christopher Puxley. Hungry Hill is a family saga of epic proportions, based on the Irish ancestors of Daphne du Maurier’s friend Christopher Puxley. The story spans the years and follows the lives of five generations of a family of Irish landowners called Brodrick who live in a castle called Clonmere in Southern Ireland. There is a reason for this: In fact, Daphne du Maurier was a friend of the British Puxley family who lived in the great house, who she calls the Brodricks in the book, and she was familiar with Hungry Hill, which still looms over the sea on the Beara Peninsula.
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