Was suggested this book by my mum, and finally finished it after exams after taking an extended break to "revise." Novel is about a guy moozing about in Cornwall, taking a drug developed by his eccentric and genius cambridge scientist buddy. The drug transports him to 13th century Cornwall, where he can observe events without influencing them while wandering around the Cornish countryside in a haze, oblivious to what's happening to his body in the present. He becomes captivated by the lives of the people in the past, and begins to retreat more and more into the world that the drug creates, and withdraws more and more from his overbearing American wife and two step-sons.
First half of the book is quite slow, and spent most of time trying to work out the relationships between all the inter-married medieval families; but it really picks up with a couple of shock events in the middle, and I got through the second half of the book pretty quickly. I had a difficult relationship with the protagonist, sometimes sympathising with him and sometimes quite disliking him. Has some quite gory and gothic elements in the book, overall an enjoyable read, and good, slightly ambigous ending, though not too ambigious, cause they're just plain annoying
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