Hungry Hill

402 pp. Hungry Hill is a big, powerful novel which depicts the struggle of a proud, semi-aristocratic, land-owning family to escape the destiny inherent in their way of life. Miss du Maurier depicts the bitter struggle between the self-righteous, progressive, and smug Brodricks and their sly, improvident, and vicious neighbors, the Donovans, with all the color and brilliant handling of atmosphere which has marked her other great fiction successes.