Spirituality is not disparaging to the story, however.
A Strange Story is a literary work of science fiction, romance, murder mystery, introspection on the meaning of life, and spirituality, interspersed with discerning social commentary, written vividly into historical philosophical context. It began with an "irresistible impulse"-a something intangible, if not spiritual-that persuaded him to take a different route to his destination, where he chanced upon Lilian, as if by accident, in the garden of her new home. ISBN 9780984491933: Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873) is "chiefly remembered.as a prolific novelist," whose several novels "remain immensely readable"-"a novelist of the first rank." A Strange Story is set in nineteenth century England, where a young provincial physician, Allen Fenwick, who, now in his thirties and with a successful practice, finds love-his "heart's twin"-in an 18-year-old newcomer to town, Miss Lilian Ashleigh.