Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths Tamsin Greig reads episode 1 of Daphne Du Maurier's dark and intriguing gothic tale. Her mother's dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman's warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives at a dismal place to find Patience a changed woman, cowering from her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn. Producer: Alison Crawford.