A review by ranam
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

This book is sci-fi and takes place partly in the twentieth-century and partly in the past 600 years earlier. I liked that it seemed possible to travel in time by the way it's described in an erudite fashion so that laymen in the book as well as the reader himself understand it.

Something having to do with memory inherited from past ancestry allowing the subject of the experiment to travel to the past to the times of his ancestors. 

The ending was somewhat worth the tedium of the good portion of the book.  It was symbolic of the failure and incapacity of the main character to live in the past instead of the present without serious repercussions, not just emotional.