![]() ![]() ![]() Waters is a consummate writer, in this novel displaying such mastery and maturity that she must surely be counted amongst very highest ranking British novelists. But I think "The Little Stranger", like "The Night Watch", is a much greater achievement as a result. Nor, for that matter, the lesbian overtones. ![]() You won't find any of the twists and riddles that inhabit Waters' earlier works. From this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister 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. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. In a dusty postwar summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. ![]() Short-listed for both the Orange and the Man Booker, it went straight to number one in the best-seller chart. After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels, Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote The Night Watch, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain. Exclusive to download: includes an interview with Sarah Waters giving an insight into the story behind The Little Stranger.Ī ghost story from one of Britain's finest and best loved writers. ![]()
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