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The Little Stranger: shortlisted for the Booker Prize Paperback – 5 January 2010
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary Mantel
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely 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, its owners - mother, son and daughter - struggling to keep pace. 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.
- Print length512 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVirago
- Publication date5 January 2010
- Dimensions20 x 3.4 x 13.2 cm
- ISBN-101844086062
- ISBN-13978-1844086061
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* The brilliant and chilling new novel from Sarah Waters - shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009
* 'Sarah Waters has worked a spell' GUARDIAN
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- Publisher : Virago (5 January 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 512 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1844086062
- ISBN-13 : 978-1844086061
- Item Weight : 400 g
- Dimensions : 20 x 3.4 x 13.2 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #146,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,238 in Historical Fiction (Books)
- #12,447 in Contemporary Fiction (Books)
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Sarah Waters is the bestselling author of Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch. Winner of many literary awards, she has been shortlisted for both the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. She lives in London.
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We are introduced to the hundreds hall & its happenings by a gentlemanly Family Doctor Faraday, who appears as a detached & rational narrator to all the mis-happenings at hundreds hall. Faraday is a very one-dimensional character & its very hard to relate to him & also make sense of his decisions as the story unravels. He appears stoic & stubborn at times using delusions & mental fatigue as a catch-all to all the complaints about ghosts he receives from Hundreds hall, which happens so many times in a book, it just appears unrealistic that one may close his mind to that extent & remain ignorant. Which makes reading after a certain part, almost half way-in, a chore & looses any intensity it built up by the creepy happenings at the house.
The novel can be divided into three sections with a member of Ayers family at core, each section is wrapped up nicely, with a frustratingly open-ended climax. The shortfall of the novel is that it fails to address the issue head-on, characters often move in circles & skirt around the meat of the mystery. Once you get familiar with a fate of a Ayers family member then you know it all about what will happen to rest. Sarah waters repeats the same formula for each character resulting in same outcome, mixed in with idiotic decisions. Keeping the horror element as the extreme unknown, Sarah waters tries & fails very badly to capture the vibe that Stephen king in Shining & Shirley jackson in haunting of hillhouse so expertly captured.
The repetitive nature of conversation, foolish characters, makes this novel a failure. Form the horror perspective, a general paint by numbers rule of a haunted house story would have worked better that the mess waters creates here. There is nothing in this novel to recommend to anyone.If you like boring repetitive conversation that goes on & on, with characters whining endlessly with no attempt to seek a resolution & with no intelligence to understand the consequences that they bestow upon themselves then this is for you, if not, stay away from this piece of "The Shining" wannabe.