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The Little Stranger is a 2009 gothic novel written by Sarah Waters. It is a ghost story set in a dilapidated mansion in Warwickshire, England in the 1940s. Departing from her earlier themes of lesbian and gay fiction, Waters' fifth novel features a male narrator, a country doctor who makes friends with an old gentry family of declining fortunes ...
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The Little Stranger is Waters’s third novel to end up on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards. Movie Adaptation. The Little Stranger was adapted into a film in 2018. It was directed by Leonard Abrahamson and starred Domhnall Gleeson as Dr. Faraday. Next.
Apr 30, 2009 · The Little Stranger is narrated by Dr. Faraday, a local doctor in a small village of England around the 1940s. His mother was a nursery maid in Hundreds Hall, a huge mansion in the village. As a child, he was fascinated by the mansion and has fond memories of it.
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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 being ...
The Little Stranger Summary. Next. Chapter 1. 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. Ever since, the house has held a powerful allure over him ...
May 30, 2009 · Review: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 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</p>
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The Little Stranger. One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline, its ...
