Daphne du Maurier Quote
Cannot give an honest traveler a bed for the night? For what other purpose was it built? And how do you live, if you have no custom? We have custom, returned the woman sullenly. I’ve told you that. There’s men come in from the farms and outlying places. There are farms and cottages scattered over these moors for miles around, and folk come from there. There are evenings when the bar is full of them. The driver on the coach yesterday told me respectable people did not come to Jamaica anymore. He said they were afraid.
Daphne du Maurier
Cannot give an honest traveler a bed for the night? For what other purpose was it built? And how do you live, if you have no custom? We have custom, returned the woman sullenly. I’ve told you that. There’s men come in from the farms and outlying places. There are farms and cottages scattered over these moors for miles around, and folk come from there. There are evenings when the bar is full of them. The driver on the coach yesterday told me respectable people did not come to Jamaica anymore. He said they were afraid.
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About Daphne du Maurier
Although du Maurier is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories have been described as "moody and resonant" with overtones of the paranormal. Her bestselling works were not at first taken seriously by critics, but they have since earned an enduring reputation for narrative craft. Many have been successfully adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel and Jamaica Inn, and the short stories "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". Du Maurier spent much of her life in Cornwall, where most of her works are set. As her fame increased, she became more reclusive.