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Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, *The Little Stranger* is Sarah Waterss 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 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.
Is The Little Stranger appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
Atmospheric Gothic ghost story set in post-war Britain with psychological tension and themes of class decline. Contains mild psychological horror and unsettling supernatural elements but no graphic violence or sexual content.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include grief, mental illness, and class struggle.
Who'll love this
Mature teens who enjoy slow-burn atmospheric mysteries and classic ghost stories will appreciate the creeping dread and elegant prose.