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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?
Nov 5, 2021 · Summary. 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.
May 11, 2019 · Such is The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. It is, in many ways, the perfect book, and with an ending that doesn’t disappoint. So, without any spoilers, let’s dive in. I don’t say this as a matter of bragging on myself; it took me a very long time to finish the book.
Dec 30, 2010 · by Sarah Waters. When I picked up THE LITTLE STRANGER, I wasn’t expecting to open the (creaky) door to a haunted house. Sarah Waters’s previous novels have been wildly atmospheric but not particularly scary.
May 1, 2009 · Based on 8 reviews. Rave. Positive. Mixed. Pan. What The Reviewers Say. Rave Hilary Mantel, The Guardian. Sarah Waters's masterly novel is a perverse hymn to decay, to the corrosive power of class resentment as well as the damage wrought by war. Hundreds Hall is crawling with blights and moulds, crumbling from subsidence and water damage …
