Treveryan

About this book

Set in Cornwall, this is a spell-binding story of the way in which the secrets of the past affect the present. This is a story of strong women and weak men, of an abiding love that breaks taboos, and dare not be declared. It is a novel in which the family is spellbound by the secrets of its past. The Angela du Maurier name has appeared on the finest, most popular novels of gothic romance and menace of our time. In this novel, she has written a superb novel of love and fear, where explores this territory with candour and sensitivity all her own. From its innocent beginning to its violent and shocking close, her narrative grip is sure. "A sure blend of romance, tragedy and macabre emotion. Written to the hilt in the best of the Wuthering Heights school, TREVERYAN carves the theme of a great family suffering under the doom of a secret curse..." - Springfield Repbulican