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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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Intro. 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.
May 29, 2009 · By Scarlett Thomas. 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 ...
May 28, 2009 · Written by Sarah Waters. Sarah Waters’ chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, brimming with rich atmosphere and psychological complexity. On an unusually hot summer afternoon in 1947, Dr Faraday is urgently called to Hundreds Hall.
Apr 30, 2009 · The Little Stranger. Sarah Waters. 3.57. 55,585 ratings7,198 reviews. 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.
