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Book at Bedtime: Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn

Book at Bedtime: Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn: Episode 1

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Jamaica Inn

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Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn

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Arriving at Jamaica Inn, Mary's troubled by the reputation of her new home in Cornwall.

4 Extra Debut. Arriving at Jamaica Inn, Mary is troubled by the reputation of her new home in Cornwall. Dark gothic tale read by Tamsin Greig.

Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths

Tamsin Greig reads episode 1 of Daphne Du Maurier's dark and intriguing gothic tale. 

Her mother's dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman's warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives at a dismal place to find Patience a changed woman, cowering from her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn.

Producer: Alison Crawford.

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Tamsin Greig reads Daphne Du Maurier's gothic tale

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