
The Little Stranger
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Simon Vance
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Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters's trilogy of Victorian novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith earned her legions of fans around the world, a number of awards, and a reputation as one of today's most gifted historical novelists. With her most recent book, The Night Watch, Waters turned to the 1940s and delivered a tender and intricate novel of relationships that brought her the greatest success she has achieved so far.
With The Little Stranger, Waters revisits the fertile setting of Britain in the 1940s - and gives us a sinister tale of a haunted house, brimming with the rich atmosphere and psychological complexity that have become hallmarks of Waters's work.
The Little Stranger follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than 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 20 to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more ominous 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.
Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, The Little Stranger is Sarah Waters's most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.
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"[A] marvelous and truly spooky historical novel. … As a strange spot on an old and mouldering ceiling takes on a sinister appearance and bodies begin to accumulate, Waters’s precise and chilling prose lets Dr. Faraday have his way with the story." ( Boston Globe)
"Waters (The Night Watch) reflects on the collapse of the British class system after WWII in a stunning haunted house tale whose ghosts are as horrifying as any in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House....Faraday, one of literature's more unreliable narrators, carries the reader swiftly along to the devastating conclusion." ( Publishers Weekly)
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Definitely Stranger
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Excellent Narration, but
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Loved this book. Elegant and deeply painted.
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simon vance can make any story amazing!
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Potentially amazing book that fell short.
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Slow burn gothic
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Superb novel & narration
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The first half kept me deeply invested and I very much appreciated the thorough and complete character development,
It is exceptionally atmospheric as well, you can feel, smell, sense this place in a way that is very real, and unusual in contemporary mystery.
Unfortunately, the story lags a bit, gets a bit bogged down about half way through and begins to feel repetitive and things lull.
It’s still a solid listen but I don’t think I would revisit this title.
The narration is exquisite-I can’t say enough about how far the narration goes to propel this story and give it life.
Simon Vance’s performance saved this one for me.
I’m not certain I would’ve become so invested without his contribution.
A solid book with extraordinary narration.
Slow Burn Gothic
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Oddly Interesting, Immediately Forgettable
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I also could not and did not get a handle on what exactly the Little Stranger was. Deliberate, to be sure, but I wished for something a bit more concrete to drive me to a conclusion. For once the ambiguous ending bugged me a bit. As a character, Hundreds Hall is wonderful though. The descriptions both overt and implied brought it to vivid life in my imagination. I felt pity and sorrow for its loss and the loss of other estates like it. So much history, culture and ways of life destroyed by ruinous taxation and changing values.
Foreshadowing is another of Water's strengths. Never once did I feel optimistic about circumstances or events. Everyone went from one tragedy to the next without hope of salvation. It was palpable, but somehow not depressing. I kept reading knowing the good doctor and Caroline were doomed and wanting to see how.
PS. After a second listen and some brooding, I think that possibly Faraday himself was the psychic force behind the happenings at Hundreds. He was after all, a child when he stole that bit of decoration from the house, and he did not live there. Since the house itself was really what he wanted all along, it made sense to drive everyone out so he could have it. Because it was all subconscious, he couldn't stop it and when it want too far and took Caroline, that was the end of the dream. Like the parasite that kills its host.
Better the 2nd time around
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