Book description
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus
Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new
drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches.
The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at
Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century. There, in the manor of
Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he witnesses
intrigue, adultery and murder.
As his time travelling increases, Dick resents more and more the
days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to
get back into his world of centuries before . . .
Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) was born in London, educated at home and
in Paris, and lived for much of her life in her beloved Cornwall, the
setting for many of her novels. Most of her novels have been bestsellers
and many have been made into films. She is considered one of the most
accomplished novelists of the twentieth century.
