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The Little Stranger
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‘Sarah Waters' masterly novel is gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining’ - Hilary Mantel 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...
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The Little Stranger
A ghost story from one of Britain's finest and best loved writers
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‘Sarah Waters' masterly novel is gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining’ - Hilary Mantel
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 with a changing society. 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.
‘The #1 book of the year... several sleepless nights are guaranteed’ - Stephen King
'Chilling... a meditation on the nature of the British and class, and how things are rarely what they seem’ - Kate Mosse
‘Waters has determined to scare the pants off her rightly devoted audience. She succeeds unequivocally’ - Erica Wagner, The Times
‘A brilliantly observed story, verging on the comedy, about Britain on the cusp of modern age’ - Independent on Sunday
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780349018515
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 August 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 38.0mm
Width: 196.0mm
Height: 126.0mm
Weight: 396g
Pages: 512
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About the Author
Sarah Waters, who was born in Wales, has been described as 'one of the best storytellers alive today' (Matt Thorne, Independent), and there can be no doubt that readers and critics alike have been gripped by her extraordinary imagination. Sarah Waters' first novel, Tipping the Velvet, won a Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her next novel, Affinity, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The former also won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. The Little Stranger was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009 and The Paying Guests was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize in 2015. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have all been adapted for television, The Little Stranger was adapted as a film by Lenny Abrahamson, and Fingersmith inspired Park Chan-wook's film, The Handmaiden. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year five times: by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association, Waterstone's Booksellers, Glamour Magazine Awards and the Stonewall Awards. In 2019 she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.
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