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Hungry Hill

Daphne du Maurier

1943328 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1943
first published
  • 1944Blakiston · 344 pages · ENG
  • 1944Ryerson Press · 402 pages · ENG
  • 1965Penguin · 415 pages · ENG
  • 1971R. Bentley · 402 pages · ENGISBN 9780837604145
  • 1981V.Gollancz · 328 pages · ENGISBN 9780575030633
  • 1983Charnwood · 654 pages · ENGISBN 9780708981214
  • 1984G.K. Hall · ENGISBN 9780816134908
  • 2008Virago Press · 516 pages · ENGISBN 9781844084524

The story of a deadly curse that afflicted an Irish family for a hundred years. "I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten... but this hill will be standing still to confound you." So curses Morty Donovan when Copper John Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks' success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by rights. For generations the feud between the families has simmered, always threatening to break into violence....

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