The Little Stranger

Paperback, 501 pages

Langue : English

Publié 23 janvier 2009 par Virago.

ISBN :
978-1-84408-602-3
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Numéro OCLC :
303020446

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Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, The Little Stranger is Sarah Waters' most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.

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 Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their …

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