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The Little Stranger Summary. Dr. Faraday lives in Lidcote, England, where he spends his days tending to patients. One day, he is called out to Hundreds Hall, a once-grand manor home. Faraday went to Hundreds as a child for Empire Day, where he was presented with a medal.
May 29, 2009 · May 29, 2009. “The Little Stranger,” Sarah Waters’s fifth novel, is set in rural Warwickshire, England, in 1947, in a wonderfully evoked atmosphere of postwar anxiety. Social reform is...
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Apr 30, 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 historical fiction it is excellent.
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May 1, 2009 · Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2005. Categories: GENERAL FICTION. Share your opinion of this book. A sinister ancestral home in an advanced state of decay, a family terrorized by its own history, and a narrator drawn into these orbits dominate this creepy novel from Waters (The Night Watch, 2006, etc.).
May 30, 2009 · Class-ridden Britain gives up the ghost. Sarah Waters is unrivalled in her ability to bring the past to life. Even so, writes Tracy Chevalier, her latest novel has a slightly second-hand feel ...
Review by Doug Kemp. There is a fundamental enigma at the heart of this excellent novel set in England in the austere and grim years after the Second World War: is Hundreds Hall, the elegant but crumbling house belonging to the Ayres family, haunted, or are the weird phenomena merely the perceptions of the rather disturbed inhabitants?
