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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 ...
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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 ...
- Sarah Waters
- 2009
The Little Stranger. Sarah Waters. Penguin, 2009 - Fiction - 466 pages. "The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly. One postwar...
- 1594488800, 9781594488801
- Sarah Waters
- Penguin, 2009
The Little Stranger. Written by Sarah Waters 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?
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The Little Stranger is a gothic novel set in post-war Britain, penned by Sarah Walters, whose previous work, "Tipping The Velvet" and "Affinity", also presented a blend of history and character-driven stories. The Little Stranger checks all the boxes for traditionally written ghost stories; spooky old family house falling into creaky disrepair?
