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The Little Stranger 

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Sarah WatersThe Little Stranger (2009)
A novel by Sarah Waters

 
Awards
The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
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.

 
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Hardback Editions

October 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1410419592Title: The Little Stranger (Historical Fiction)
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 1-4104-1959-2 / 978-1-4104-1959-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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May 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0771087888Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 0-7710-8788-8 / 978-0-7710-8788-2 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
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May 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1844086011Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 1-84408-601-1 / 9781844086016 (UK edition)
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
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April 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1594488800Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 1-59448-880-0 / 9781594488801 (USA edition)
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
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Paperback Editions

May 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1594484465Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 1-59448-446-5 / 9781594484469 (USA edition)
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
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March 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0771087896Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 0-7710-8789-6 / 978-0-7710-8789-9 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Emblem Editions
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January 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1844086062Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 1-84408-606-2 / 9781844086061 (UK edition)
Publisher: Virago
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May 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 184408602XTitle: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 1-84408-602-X / 9781844086023 (UK edition)
Publisher: Virago
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2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0771088167Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 0-7710-8816-7 / 978-0-7710-8816-2 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
Publisher: Emblem Editions
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2009 : Paperback
Title: The Little Stranger [ Large Print ]
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 1-4074-3863-8 / 978-1-4074-3863-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd
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Cover of ISBN: 0748110992Title: THE LITTLE STRANGER.
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ISBN: 0-7481-1099-2 / 978-0-7481-1099-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Virago Press
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Audio Editions

May 2009 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1405505923Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 1-4055-0592-3 / 978-1-4055-0592-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hachette Digital
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April 2009 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0143144804Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
ISBN: 0-14-314480-4 / 978-0-14-314480-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
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2010 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B003XNC07WTitle: The Little Stranger [Paperback]
Author(s): Sarah Waters (Author)
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September 2009 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B002S0KB40Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
Publisher: Hachette Digital
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March 2009 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B0023EFB32Title: The Little Stranger
Author(s): Sarah Waters
Publisher: Riverhead
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2009 : Unknown
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