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The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters

Hardcover | Pages: 466 pages

Rating: 3.54 | 41606 Users | 5880 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Little Stranger
ISBN:	1594488800 (ISBN13: 9781594488801)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dr. Faraday, Caroline Ayres, Roderick Ayres, Angela Ayres, Betty, Peter Baker-Hyde, Diane Baker-Hyde, Gillian Baker-Hyde, David Graham, Anne Graham, Bill Desmond, Helen Desmond, Raymond Rossifer, Morley Baker-Hyde, Maurice Babb, Jim Seeley
Setting:	Warwickshire, England,1949 Warwickshire, England,1947
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2009), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2010), Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (Finalist) (2009), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction & Mystery/Thriller (2009)

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One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive 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. Its owners—mother, son, and daughter—are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. 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 intimately entwined with his.

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Title	:	The Little Stranger
Author	:	Sarah Waters
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 466 pages
Published	:	April 30th 2009 by Riverhead Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Horror. Mystery. Gothic. Fantasy. Paranormal

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Ratings: 3.54 From 41606 Users | 5880 Reviews

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Downton Abbey meets The Shining in a house worthy of Daphne du Maurier. A creepy, atmospheric, and puzzling ghost story. Or is it?

I was too busy wanting this book to be something that it wasn't, that when I realized my frustration at the narrator was Water's intent and plot strategy, I couldn't get passed my disappointment to fully enjoy what she created. I have read similar books, which I won't mention here for fear of ruining them with the comparison, but this too may have played into my reading/opinion/frustration at The Little Stranger. I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend this book, but if you want to read a

An eerie,engrossing haunted house tale. The plot pulls you in and holds you firmly in it's grip. A deep,disturbing, gothic ghost story of the highest order. Subtle and poignant. I could not put it down!

3.5 not my favourite by this author but still very readable, despite its slowness.

"I first saw Hundreds Hall when I was ten years old. It was the summer after the war, and the Ayreses still had most of their money then, were still big people in the district I recall most vividly the house itself, which struck me as an absolute mansion. I remember its lovely ageing details: the worn red brick, the cockled window glass, the weathered sandstone edgings. They made it look blurred and slightly uncertain like an ice, I thought, just beginning to melt in the sun."What I liked most

Dr. Faraday is called over to Hundreds Hall on summer day when someone on the estate falls ill. While there he strikes up a friendship with the family and in the coming months is pulled into their problems. Hundreds Hall is said to be haunted and as the months pass by it becomes more and more confusing to tell whether the effect of the house on the people living in it is due to it being haunted or the steady deterioration of the estate and the status of the people who inhabit it in a world

The one thing Ive learned from reading my first two Sarah Waters novels (Tipping the Velvet and The Paying Guests) is the value of patience. She starts things slowly, building character and the environment with deliberate care and copious detail. Plot is secondary, and it can take awhile for the endgame to come into focus. With The Little Stranger, however, my patience nearly ran out. The Little Stranger is a bit of a departure for Waters in that she plays things straight. Sexually, I mean. Her