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The Little Stranger

  • 2009 first published
  • 512 pages
  • ★ 3.7 (3 ratings)
  • 21 editions

The Little Stranger is a 2009 ghost story and horror novel by Sarah Waters and Jaime Zulaika Goicoechea. The story is set in Warwickshire, England and Great Britain, in the 20th century. Readers will find themes of physicians, haunted houses, Ghost and England.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 78 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 21 editions across 4 languages.

At about 512 pages, most readers finish it in 9–10 hours.

About The Little Stranger

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.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Setting

Era

Subjects

  • Physicians
  • Ghost stories
  • Haunted houses
  • Ghost
  • England
  • Horror
  • Great britain

Quick answers

Who wrote The Little Stranger?

The Little Stranger was written by Sarah Waters and Jaime Zulaika Goicoechea and first published in 2009.

What genre is The Little Stranger?

It is usually shelved as Ghost Stories and Horror.

How long is The Little Stranger?

The median edition has 512 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Little Stranger?

Readers who like it often enjoy I Remember You, This House is Haunted and Home Before Dark.

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