Hungry Hill

In this novel, the author "depicts the bitter struggle between the proud, semi-aristocratic, landowning (Irish) Brodericks attempting to escape the destiny inherent in their way of life - and their feud with their sly, improvident and vicious neighbors, the Donovans...A large work covering five stormy generations starting in 1820 and continuing for a hundred years." -Huntting from H. W. Wilson’s Fiction Catalog, 8th edition

Daphne Du Maurier’s father was Gerald Du Maurier, a famous actor-manager, whose life she wrote in "Gerald: A Portrait." Her grandfather was George Du Maurier, the artist and novelist...

Her books have now sold over a million copies in hardcover editions alone...She is a gifted craftsman and a skillful spinner of yarns. Her novels make excellent movies because of their "expert blend of suspense, shrewd realism, and romantic hokum" - Time.

It has been noted that some of her characters, especially in "Rebecca," might have appeared in such Bronte novels as "Wuthering Heights." She has written with discernment of the dissolute Bronte brother in "The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte." Besides thoroughly researching her subject "she has woven her special brand of sorcery around it." -The Reader’s Adviser, 11th edition, R.R. Bowker Company

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