The Little Stranger: shortlisted for the Booker Prize - Softcover

Waters, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844086062 ISBN 13: 9781844086061

Publisher: Virago, 2010

Synopsis

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely 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, its owners - mother, son and daughter - struggling to keep pace. 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.

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Review:

'A gripping story ... 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 --Kate Mosse, The Times

'A brilliantly observed story, verging on the comedy, about Britain on the cusp of modern age ... The writing is subtle and poised' Joy lo Dico, Independent on Sunday --Joy lo Dico, Independent on Sunday

'Displaying her remarkable flair for period evocation, Waters recreates backwater Britain just after the Second World War with atmospheric immediacy ... Acute and absorbing' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times --Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

'Waters is often described as a brilliant storyteller, and so she is. But she is also an artist compelled to experiment ... Waters gives herself a sort of handicap with the dull doctor's narration. This indirectness, which in cruder hands might have led to yawning insurrection in the reader, becomes essential to the novels unsettling power' Claudia Fitzherbert, Daily Telegraph
--Claudia Fitzherbert, Daily Telegraph

Book Description:

* The brilliant and chilling new novel from Sarah Waters - shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009
* 'Sarah Waters has worked a spell' GUARDIAN

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1844086062
• ISBN 13: 9781844086061
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512