The Little Stranger"The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive 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. Its owners—mother, son, and daughter—are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. 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 intimately entwined with his. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 4 |
Section 3 | 37 |
Section 4 | 67 |
Section 5 | 69 |
Section 6 | 71 |
Section 7 | 97 |
Section 8 | 122 |
Section 19 | 309 |
Section 20 | 324 |
Section 21 | 331 |
Section 22 | 346 |
Section 23 | 358 |
Section 24 | 359 |
Section 25 | 388 |
Section 26 | 408 |
Section 9 | 139 |
Section 10 | 154 |
Section 11 | 187 |
Section 12 | 207 |
Section 13 | 214 |
Section 14 | 218 |
Section 15 | 261 |
Section 16 | 284 |
Section 17 | 301 |
Section 18 | 303 |
Section 27 | 420 |
Section 28 | 422 |
Section 29 | 433 |
Section 30 | 435 |
Section 31 | 441 |
Section 32 | 445 |
Section 33 | 459 |
Section 34 | 462 |
Section 35 | 465 |
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