![]() ![]() His thick dark hair fell over his eyes in a fringe and hung about his ears. He was a great husk of a man, nearly seven feet high, with a creased black brow and a skin the colour of a gypsy. He drinks, he is a bully, he is violent and we know at once that he is up to no good. The villain is Joss Merlyn and as villainous as a reader could wish. It is night and the coachman is reluctant to set her down at this infamous hostelry. ![]() The story begins as she makes her way from the peaceful town of her childhood, Helston, to the wilderness of Bodmin moor. The heroine Mary Yellan is as she should be: youngish, but not so young as to be foolish independent, but not by choice as she had promised her widowed and dying mother to live with her aunt at Jamaica Inn pretty, but not so attractive that all the men will do anything for her and with spirit to stand up to people, but a soft heart as well. We are in Cornwall in the far south west of Britain in the 1820s. ![]()
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