HUNGRY HILL is a passionate story told with du Maurier's unique gift for drama. It follows five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill to which their fortunes and fates are so closely bound.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA
'Daphne du Maurier has no rival' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'du Maurier is a magician, a virtuouso' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
'A storyteller of cunning and genius' SALLY BEAUMAN
'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 'Cooper 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 . . .
A storyteller of cunning and genius - Sally Beauman
Daphne du Maurier has no rival - Sunday Telegraph
du Maurier is a magician, a virtuouso. She can conjure up tragedy, horror, tension, suspense the ridiculous, the vain, the romantic - Good Housekeeping
As poignant and powerful as du Maurier's better-known romantic fiction - DAILY MAIL
Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 89) was born in London, the daughter of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of George du Maurier, the author and artist. She began writing short stories and articles in 1928 and in 1931 her first novel, THE LOVING SPIRIT, was published. It was the novel REBECCA that launched her into the literary stratosphere and made her one of the most popular authors of all time.