The House On The Strand
On sale
2nd April 2026
Price: £10.99
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 FORSTER
I 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.
‘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 FORSTER
I 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.
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Reviews
The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier. . . . She holds her characters close to reality; the past she creates is valid, and her skill in finessing the time shifts is enough to make one want to try a little of the brew himself
She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality
The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier ... She holds her characters close to reality; the past she creates is valid, and her skill in finessing the time shifts is enough to make one want to try a little of the brew himself
Historical science-fiction with heightened emotional drama, a very Oultander-like novel, if you will
No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification ... She satisfied all the questionable criteria of popular fiction, and yet satisfied the exacting requirements of "real literature", something very few novelists ever do
