The House on the Strand
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Summary
A man discovers a way to enter fourteenth-century Cornwall while remaining in the present, then becomes increasingly entangled with the people and peril he encounters there. The result is an atmospheric psychological time-slip novel.
Why this book now
Read it now for a richly unsettling blend of historical atmosphere, psychological suspense, and speculative escape.
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- You enjoy Daphne Du Maurier’s suspenseful, atmospheric fiction.
- You like time-slip stories with psychological stakes.
- You want fast, action-driven science fiction.
- You prefer strictly realistic historical novels.
- You are specifically hunting for the newest framing rather than a backlist perspective.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780812217261
Worth buying if: You enjoy Daphne Du Maurier’s suspenseful, atmospheric fiction.
Skip it if: You want fast, action-driven science fiction.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Balanced Moderate time
At 298 pages, it is a substantial but manageable novel, best read with enough time to follow its shifts between the present and medieval Cornwall.
What stands out here
This 2000 University of Pennsylvania Press edition presents the novel in a 298-page paperback-length record.
Best way to approach it
Let the two eras accumulate gradually; the novel’s unease comes from the growing overlap between ordinary life and medieval danger.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780812217261
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