The Little Stranger

By Sarah Waters

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Little Stranger is a 2009 novel by Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith and The Night Watch. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a 2018 film. In 1947, Dr. Faraday, a country doctor, is called to Hundreds Hall, a decaying Georgian mansion in Warwickshire where his mother once worked as a maid. He becomes close to the Ayres family who still live there, just as strange events begin to suggest that the house itself may be haunted.

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• Stephen King: “This is a terrifying, engrossing ghost story set in the English countryside not long after World War II, but it’s so much more.”