Du Maurier, Daphne
Penguin Readers: Level 5 (Upper-Intermediate)
Genre: Thriller/Adventure.
When her mother dies, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt and uncle at Jamaica Inn. Strange things happen there at night, and Mary slowly discovers that she and her aunt are in terrible danger. Can she save herself and her aunt before it is too late?
Jamaica Inn is set in eighteenth centuryCornwall, when the moors were a wild place. Lonelyfarmhouses provided good hideaways for smugglers androbbers. The deadly bogs were treacherous places. It isall very different from the lush gentleness of the Helford Valley that has been home to the book’s heroine, MaryYellan for her 23 years.