The Return

<p><strong>The Return - Walter de la Mare (short summary)</strong></p><p> <em>The Return</em> is a haunting psychological novel about Arthur Lawford a quiet ordinary man who undergoes a strange and unsettling transformation after visiting a graveyard. While resting near the tomb of an 18th-century adventurer named Herbert Herbert Lawford somehow begins to take on the dead man's appearance - and possibly his personality.</p><p>As he struggles to understand what has happened to him Lawford becomes caught between skeptical doctors his anxious wife and a mysterious woman who believes his change is real and meaningful. The novel blurs the line between the supernatural and psychological exploring identity memory and the hidden parts of the self.</p><p>It remains an eerie slow-building study of a man who may be possessed - or may be losing his mind.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>