false 6065182 13 A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of <i>The Night Watch</i> and <i>Fingersmith</i>. <i>Sarah Waters's</i> trilogy of Victorian novels <i>Tipping the Velvet</i>, <i>Affinity</i>, and <i>Fingersmith</i> earned her legions of fans around the world, a number of awards, and a reputation as one of today's most gifted historical novelists. With her most recent book, <i>The Night Watch</i>, Waters turned to the 1940s and delivered a tender and intricate novel of relationships that brought her the greatest success she has achieved so far. With <i>The Little Stranger</i>, Waters revisits the fertile setting of Britain in the 1940s - and gives us a sinister tale of a haunted house, brimming with the rich atmosphere and psychological complexity that have become hallmarks of Waters's work. <i>The Little Stranger</i> follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at 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, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses 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. Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, <i>The Little Stranger</i> is <i>Sarah Waters's</i> most thrilling and ambitious novel yet. 5769396 book 2009 The Little Stranger total:1135|5:176|4:469|3:359|2:112|1:19| 1135 4076 2650 437 5 16 false false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 05:30:15 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 09:01:22 -0700 2009 The Little Stranger. This book is not a variant on The Shining that just happens to be set in post-WWII Britain: it is essentially historical fiction that happens to have a touch of the supernatural about it. And as histor...more...]]> 4 3 false true Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 03:19:30 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 10:13:44 -0700 2009
BUT I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER.



A day off work, roaring log fire, soft leather settee strewn with big puffy cushions, watery yellow winter light...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 13:21:23 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 12:24:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 3 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 11:41:09 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 12:48:23 -0700 2009 The Night Watch, Sarah Waters sets her latest novel in post-World War II Warwickshire and tries her hand at an Old Dark House, Haunted-Or-Is-It story in the Jamesian tradition of subtle, ambiguous psychological chillers (...more...]]> 3 3 false false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 04:18:37 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 20:14:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jun 17 11:00:25 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 05:21:02 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 11:00:25 -0700 2009 3 0 false true Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 01:29:05 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 01:37:54 -0700 2009 The Haunting of Hill House for a perf...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Sep 14 11:18:30 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:51:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 08:04:01 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 08:28:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 09:42:28 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 10:06:39 -0700 2009 The Little Stranger is a gothic mystery that draws on historical literary predecessors and creates something new and supremely creepy. The Ayers family has inhabited their ancestral home, Hundreds, for several hundred years. In t...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jun 29 14:12:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 14:22:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 05:21:24 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 05:21:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 11:24:17 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 11:24:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 10 false false Sat May 09 08:52:16 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 09:56:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false true Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 05:30:58 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 05:40:52 -0700 2009 1 Fingersmith. Let's get that out of the way right away, because that's Sarah Waters's best-known and probably best-loved book (I actually prefer Affinity, but I'm weird that way).

Having said that, if you've liked and enjoyed Sarah Waters's books before, I think you will like this...more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 14:33:05 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 14:40:11 -0700 2009
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