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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I must be one of the only people who really enjoyed both this and Never Let Me Go.
I have read a number of du Maurier's other titles, so I suppose I expected all the unanswered questions and "irresolution." I find it amusing that there was so much vitriol in the Never Let Me go thread over it and here it is a mere point of discussion as the style of the author.
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I’m with you,
astrangerhere - I enjoyed both of them too. I think it can be a problem with pretty much any book when we thrash it to death looking at whether it is scientifically possible, or logical or whatever.
Rather than considering how the drug worked, I thought more about the nature of addiction to various things, and the damage this does to the individual and also to his or her family. At one point Dick said he
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craved the experience which had been denied me, and which I could have possessed had I taken a few drops from the flask safely locked away in the old laundry at Kilmarth.
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. (Chapter 12.)
A little later on he worried over whether the drug was causing a sense of depression and foreboding. And his behaviour certainly had a bad effect on his family.