The Little Stranger - Hardcover

Waters, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844086011 ISBN 13: 9781844086016

Publisher: Virago, 2009

Synopsis

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. Shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart.
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. 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. 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.
Prepare yourself. From this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.

About this title

Review:

`A gripping story, with beguiling characters . . . As well as being a supernatural tale, it is a meditation on the nature of the British and class, and how things are rarely what they seem. Chilling' Kate Mosse, The Times, Summer Read

Book Description:

* A ghost story from one of Britain's finest and best loved writers. The major literary event of 2009

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1844086011
• ISBN 13: 9781844086016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512