He is self-absorbed, obsessive and makes it clear he finds men more captivating than his new wife, feeling no passion towards her or in any way fatherly towards her sons. Dick is not a character you immediately fall in love with. It's an edgy, sometimes uncomfortable and yet mesmerising book to read. Dick's experience of course is mind-blowing, but his 'trips' prove highly addictive and he finds himself increasingly repelled from his wife and the modern world and drawn back to the past, where what begins as over-identification with the characters involved turns into a deep love, not least towards Roger of Kilmarth himself. Trying to delay their arrival as long as possible, he tests out his friend Professor Magnus' untried and clearly very unsafe new drug that transports him back to the tumultuous life of Roger of Kilmarth and those who shared this beautiful part of Cornwall 600 years before. Dick Young is on holiday in Cornwall and awaiting the arrival of his American wife and her sons. This captivating story by Daphne du Maurier is truly a one off. Perfect narration of this mesmerising story
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