The little stranger novel6/12/2023 'How this house likes to catch us out,' Mrs Ayres says. More than once the characters talk of the parkland as an enchanted sleeping forest – and there is a chilling, fairytale feel to the place. Cars battle through brambles and trees to reach the house, entire rooms – wasted chambers - and floors are closed off and unused. The gardens are choked with weeds ('an ancient ha-ha it's sides so … overgrown it was more truthfully … a boo-hoo'). If, like me, you love stories in which the house is as much a character as the people, you will enjoy the descriptions of the dilapidated Georgian mansion. Post World War II, both the house and family are in decline – cracks are appearing in walls, relationships, psyches. Hundreds Hall, the loneliest house in Warwickshire has been home to the Ayres family for two centuries. When was the last time you couldn't put a Booker nominated novel down? Sarah Waters, author of acclaimed novels Fingersmith and The Night Watch has written a chilling psychological ghost story that kept me guessing until the very last page. Summary: The haunting tale of an aristocratic family's decline.
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