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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 ...
Apr 30, 2009 · 2,097 reviews 887 followers. January 27, 2024. In the 50s, old houses were "out of time" in England. Faraday, a country doctor, thus got to know the Ayers family, whom he learned as a child and who today find themselves isolated and very poor. Little by little, strange events follow one another in the house.
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May 1, 2009 · Hannah’s torturously over-written romance passages are stale, but there are surprises in store as the sisters set about unearthing Alice’s past and creating a home for her. Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences. Share your opinion of this book. A sinister ancestral home in an advanced state of decay, a ...
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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 ...
May 11, 2019 · It is not easy to read a book nearly 700 pages long, nor is it easy to read through a slow-burning novel of this type. The kind that digs under your skin without you ever realizing it; the kind that almost makes you impatient with anticipation. Such is The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. It is, in many ways, the perfect book, and with an ...
Dec 30, 2010 · And that is really the moving force of THE LITTLE STRANGER: the push and pull between Dr. Faraday, the man of humble origins who is entranced by Hundreds, and the poor but lordly Ayreses, “playing gaily at gentry life.”. As the mood darkens and the apparently supernatural incidents multiply, Dr. Faraday becomes ever more mesmerized by the ...
May 1, 2009 · Waters manages the conclusion of her book with consummate, quiet skill. It is gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining. Sarah Waters ain't afraid of no ghost. Her new novel, a deliciously creepy tale called The Little Stranger, is haunted by the spirits of Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe …. The supernatural creaks and groans ...
