The Little Stranger

DIVDIVimg src="/static/pages/publishersoffice/images/icon_featuredin3.jpg"/div bA chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of iThe Night Watch/i and iFingersmith./i/bBRBR Sarah Waters's trilogy of Victorian novels iTipping the Velvet/i, iAffinity/i, and iFingersmith/i earned her legions of fans around the world, a number of awards, and a reputation as one of today's most gifted historical novelists. With her most recent book, iThe Night Watch/i, Waters turned to the 1940s and delivered a tender and intricate novel of relationships that brought her the greatest success she has achieved so far. With iThe Little Stranger/i, Waters revisits the fertile setting of Britain in the 1940s-and gives us a sinister tale of a haunted house, brimming with the rich atmosphere and psychological complexity that have become hallmarks of Waters's work.BRBR iThe Little Stranger/i follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand 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. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his.BRBR Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, iThe Little Stranger/i is Sarah Waters's most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.BRBR /div