From the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith comes an astonishing novel about love, loss, and the sometimes unbearable weight of the past.
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to see a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the once grand house is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its garden choked with weeds. All around, the world is changing, and the family is struggling to adjust to a society with new values and rules.
Roddie Ayres, who returned from World War II physically and emotionally wounded, is desperate to keep the house and what remains of the estate together for the sake of his mother and his sister, Caroline. Mrs. Ayres is doing her best to hold on to the gracious habits of a gentler era and Caroline seems cheerfully prepared to continue doing the work a team of servants once handled, even if it means having little chance for a life of her own beyond Hundreds.
But as Dr. Faraday becomes increasingly entwined in the Ayreses' lives, signs of a more disturbing nature start to emerge, both within the family and in Hundreds Hall itself. And Faraday begins to wonder if they are all threatened by something more sinister than a dying way of life, something that could subsume them completely.
Both a nuanced evocation of 1940s England and the most chill-inducing novel of psychological suspense in years, The Little Stranger confirms Sarah Waters as one of the finest and most exciting novelists writing today.
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to see a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the once grand house is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its garden choked with weeds. All around, the world is changing, and the family is struggling to adjust to a society with new values and rules.
Roddie Ayres, who returned from World War II physically and emotionally wounded, is desperate to keep the house and what remains of the estate together for the sake of his mother and his sister, Caroline. Mrs. Ayres is doing her best to hold on to the gracious habits of a gentler era and Caroline seems cheerfully prepared to continue doing the work a team of servants once handled, even if it means having little chance for a life of her own beyond Hundreds.
But as Dr. Faraday becomes increasingly entwined in the Ayreses' lives, signs of a more disturbing nature start to emerge, both within the family and in Hundreds Hall itself. And Faraday begins to wonder if they are all threatened by something more sinister than a dying way of life, something that could subsume them completely.
Both a nuanced evocation of 1940s England and the most chill-inducing novel of psychological suspense in years, The Little Stranger confirms Sarah Waters as one of the finest and most exciting novelists writing today.
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October 2009 : Hardback
| Title: The Little Stranger (Thorndike Press Large Print Historical Fiction) Author(s): Sarah Waters ISBN: 1-4104-1959-2 / 978-1-4104-1959-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2009 : Hardback
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May 2009 : Hardback
| Title: The Little Stranger Author(s): Sarah Waters ISBN: 1-84408-601-1 / 9781844086016 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
April 2009 : Hardback
| Title: The Little Stranger Author(s): Sarah Waters ISBN: 1-59448-880-0 / 9781594488801 (USA edition) Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2009 : Hardback
| Title: THE LITTLE STRANGER. Author(s): Sarah. WATERS ISBN: 0-7481-1099-2 / 978-0-7481-1099-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Press Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Little Stranger Author(s): Sarah Waters ISBN: 1-59448-446-5 / 9781594484469 (USA edition) Publisher: Riverhead Trade Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Little Stranger Author(s): Sarah Waters ISBN: 1-84408-606-2 / 9781844086061 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 2010 : Paperback
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May 2009 : Paperback
| Title: The Little Stranger Author(s): Sarah Waters ISBN: 1-84408-602-X / 9781844086023 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
May 2009 : Audio CD
| Title: The Little Stranger Author(s): Sarah Waters ISBN: 1-4055-0592-3 / 978-1-4055-0592-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Hachette Audio Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
April 2009 : Audio CD
| Title: The Little Stranger Author(s): Sarah Waters ISBN: 0-14-314480-4 / 978-0-14-314480-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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