Ein Tropfen Zeit

Roman

No cover

Daphne du Maurier: Ein Tropfen Zeit (Hardcover, German language, 2015, Büchergilde Gutenberg)

Hardcover, 299 pages

German language

Published Jan. 22, 2015 by Büchergilde Gutenberg.

ISBN:
978-3-7632-6721-7
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

(1 review)

Die erste Auflage beträgt 5000 Exemplare

18 editions

Wonderfully bizarre!

Daphne du Maurier's iconic novel, Rebecca, has been one of my top five favourite books for over a decade, yet I'd not managed to bring myself to read any of her other novels until now. I'm not quite sure why. Perhaps I subconsciously thought they couldn't possibly be as good, but that hasn't put me off other authors. Let's just put it down to being one of those strange reading quirks, a quirk that I am delighted to have overcome when I spotted a copy of The House On The Strand at a charity shop recently.

Published some thirty years after Rebecca, The House On The Strand is a very different novel and a wonderfully bizarre one. I'm not sure whether to categorise it as a thriller or a mystery or even science fiction. Its timeslip premise is so brilliantly executed that I had no trouble at all in overlooking …