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Sarah Waters’ chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, brimming with rich atmosphere and psychological complexity.On an unusually hot summer afternoon in 1947, Dr Faraday is urgently called to Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline - its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds. But are the Ayres haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his."Sarah Waters's masterly novel is a perverse hymn to decay, to the corrosive power of class resentment as well as the damage wrought by war. Hundreds Hall is crawling with blights and moulds, crumbling from subsidence and water damage ... The reader of Affinity will know that Waters is creepily conversant with ways to scare us. The reader of Fingersmith will know how deftly she handles a plot twist. The Little Stranger is a more controlled and composed novel than her last book, the widely admired The Night Watch, which was set during the second world war. Here she deploys the vigour and cunning on

Who reads The Little Stranger?

Author

Waters, Sarah

Publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101051764

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.51 / 5 (21,169 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14