A review by marilynsaul
Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier

2.0

Sigh. Not your typical Daphne du Maurier, by any means. Certainly a pertinent read for the times, as DDM vividly recounts the blind inequity between 19th century wealthy landholders and later corporate owners of a copper mine, and the local villagers they magnanimously hired (exploited) and kept in poverty and squalid conditions. One is treated to five generations of dissolute, ineffectual men who are the product of too much money, too much local power, and who marry (with one exception) the most irritating, manipulative women you would ever want to encounter (though we have all met them in the 20th/21st century). It is a scouring expose of the ruin brought to society by the 1%, and since we are seeing it today and nothing has changed, it was just plain depressing. I'm so glad to be done with it.