A storyteller of cunning and genius - Sally Beauman
Hungry Hill' is a passionate story told with du Maurier's unique gift for drama. It follows five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill to which their fortunes and fates are bound.
'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 . . .
- ISBN10 0316253545
- ISBN13 9780316253543
- Publish Date 17 December 2013 (first published 30 June 1969)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Little Brown and Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 528
- Language English