Includes the novels Frenchman's Creek and Hungry Hill, and the story collection The Birds & Other Stories.

Frenchman's Creek tells the story of Lady Dona St Columb's escape from the Restoration Court in search of love and adventure at Navron in Cornwall. Hungry Hill is a powerful tale of the feud between two great families, the Donovans and the Brodricks. Daphne du Maurier's short story The Birds was the basis for the classic Hitchcock film.