" ‘How this house likes to catch us out, doesn’t it? As if it knows all our weaknesses and is testing them, one by one . . ." The Little Stranger makes for great October / Halloween read - though, I will never know for sure whether it is a ghost that is haunting Hundreds Hall or something more sin...
The first half of the 20th Century dealt a death blow to Britain's landed gentry. A long-established way of life that had endured for centuries fell apart under the social and economic upheavals of two World Wars, as well as political transitions that had been percolating for decades - the enfranch...
Dr. Faraday is called to Hundreds Hall to attend to an ailing servant. The doctor, who has fuzzy golden memories of a visit to Hundreds as a child, is shocked and appalled at the derelict state of Hundreds. The sick servant is found to be faking her illness because she is scared of house, which she ...
This novel is a kind of Gothic, Victorian novel with overtones of spiteful spirits, coming to life and inhabiting a house, The Hundreds Hall, once beautiful, but now decaying, after years of neglect. World War II and changing values in England altered the existence of many in the aristocracy forcing...
Very nearly 4 stars. Creepy and well written. Felt overly long at times, sometimes laborious. I'm glad I read purely for the Doctor; the more time passes, the spookier he gets.
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters The ending to this book was reminiscent of the final episode of The Sopranos...utterly frustrating and ambiguous, yet I loved it. I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll never know what happened to Tony Soprano or how his story ends, and now I'll forever wond...
Rather than providing a traditional review, I just want to talk a bit about the book, and what I liked about it. I’m not a big horror reader, but I do love a story with gothic attributes, which this one had in spades. I also love the time period of this book, which is set in postwar England during a...
I enjoyed this book from the beginning because of Simon Vance’s voice, a narrator I have been enthralled by on several books. I became captivated by the story because of Sarah Waters‘ nuanced take on a gothic-style ghost story. In fact, if I did not know from the beginning this was a ghost story, th...
Within the blogosphere, few authors garner rave reviews and general excitement as Sarah Waters. She has become famous for her eerie novels and picturesque settings, as they hearken back to a time when Gothic novels reigned supreme. Her 2010 novel, The Little Stranger, is the definitive example of he...
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