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  • By: Sarah Waters
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (48 ratings)

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Exclusive to download: includes an interview with Sarah Waters giving an insight into the story behind The Little Stranger.

A ghost story from one of Britain's finest and best loved writers. 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. Short-listed for both the Orange and the Man Booker, it went straight to number one in the best-seller chart.

In a dusty postwar 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 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.
©2009 Sarah Waters (P)2009 Penguin Audio
Contemporary Fiction
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Is it a ghost or a delusion?

I loved the premise of this novel :: Is the house haunted or is there a rational explanation for all strange goings on in Hundreds House?

A great ghost story for those of us who don't normally read ghost stories.

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Beautifully written and read

I love this genre. It’s not jump-scare spooky, if that’s what you’re looking for. It’s subtle and descriptive and I found myself transported by this narrrative.

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Not my cup of tea

I found the detail tedious and it took forever to get to the guts of the story. The reader was well suited to the style and era but I found the actual story lacking. It was boring.

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