House on the Strand

FROM THE BESTSELLING WRITER OF REBECCA'The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier . . . ' NEW YORK TIMES'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . ' MARGARET FORSTERI realized at that moment, more strongly than hitherto, how fantastic, even macabre, was my presence amongst them, unseen, unborn, a freak in time, witness to events that had happened centuries past . . .When Dick Young arrives at Kilmarth, the Cornish home of his friend Professor Magnus Lane, he discovers a secret. Magnus has been experimenting with a new drug that allows the user to slip back in time - and Dick has a chance to escape his present troubles. Transported to fourteenth-century Cornwall, Dick becomes an invisible witness to intrigue, adultery and murder.But with each dose of the drug, his addiction to this other world - and his withdrawal from his own - grows stronger. And every attempt to change history puts his own life in jeopardy . . .Du Maurier's striking novel weaves together past and present into an addictive time-slip thriller.