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The 2011 Award

Waters

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The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

 

 

 

Nominated by:

  • Chicago Public Library, USA.
  • Dunedin Public Libraries, New Zealand.
  • Municipal Library of Prague, Czech Republic
  • Jacksonville Public Library, USA.

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Virago Press, UK.

Riverhead Books, USA.

 
The complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely 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, its owners ? Mother, son and daughter ? Struggling to keep pace. 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. 


(From Publisher).
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966 and lives in London. She has a Ph.D in English Literature and has lectured for the Open University. She won the Betty Trask Award for Tipping The Velvet and the Somerset Maugham Award and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year for Affinity. Fingersmith was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize 2002 and for the Man Booker Prize 2002, and won the CWA Historical Dagger prize before earning her three 2003 Author of the Year awards - from the Booksellers Association, Waterstone's and The British Book Awards. Sarah Waters is also the winner of The South Bank Show Award. 
 

LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS

An amazing ghost story, very suspenseful.

A complex, psychological thriller, Waters' book places a crumbling "great house" as centre character in a novel that documents the sweeping changes in English society following World War II. Through a ghost story on the surface, The Little Stranger quickly challenges the reader to question the nature of sanity, perception and the strength of familial ties.

 

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