The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters

After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels, Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote the night watch, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain shortlisted for both the orange and the man booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart in a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at hundreds hall home to the Ayres family for over 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 Ayres's 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 entwined with his prepare yourself from this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.

ISBN: 9781844086023

Pages: 501

Trade paperback

Virago, 2009

Edition: 01

Good condition; Cover has some small creases

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