The Little Stranger

· Sold by Penguin
3.9
26 reviews
Ebook
528
Pages
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About this ebook

Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson.

"The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly


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 masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. Its owners—mother, son, and daughter—are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become intimately entwined with his.

Ratings and reviews

3.9
26 reviews
A Google user
February 13, 2011
Finished reading The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. I despise horror books and don't usually read them but selected this one more by accident than choice. After reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, I was looking for similar book recommendations on amazon, and that's when it suggested Little Stranger with large number of 5 star ratings. I don't think I read the book description quite properly and just bought it instantaneously in a moment of haste. After having spent money on it, I felt kind of compelled to read it. The start of the book was slow and I crawled through the firs couple hundred pages. I confess that the story did get a bit interesting from that point on, but never gripped me enough to feel absorbed into the story teller's world. It is a good read but not of my taste and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who likes the other books in my collection. This one goes down for two stars.
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David Melum
March 14, 2013
I did not get into this book at all. I felt like it was going to get better soon, so I didn't abandon it. However, it never improved for me. I thought it was going to be scary, but that never happened. It was just dull and boring for me.
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Mark Schwent
May 1, 2019
Well written, but I guess I was wanting a ghost to reveal herself to the Doctor. Just a little Shadow to let the good Doctor know the people he came to care about just didn't go nuts and kill themselves.
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About the author

Sarah Waters is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Paying GuestsThe Little Stranger,The Night WatchFingersmith, Affinity, and Tipping the Velvet. She has three times been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, has twice been a finalist for the Orange Prize, and was named one of Granta’s best young British novelists, among other distinctions. Waters lives in London.

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