The little stranger / Sarah Waters.
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to see a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the once grand house is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its garden choked with weeds. All around, the world is changing, and the family is struggling to adjust to a society with new values and rules. Roddie Ayres, who returned from World War II physically and emotionally wounded, is desperate to keep the house and what remains of the estate together for the sake of his mother and his sister, Caroline. Mrs. Ayres is doing her best to hold on to the gracious habits of a gentler era and Caroline seems cheerfully prepared to continue doing the work a team of servants once handled, even if it means having little chance for a life of her own beyond Hundreds. But as Dr. Faraday becomes increasingly entwined in the Ayreses' lives, signs of a more disturbing nature start to emerge, both within the family and in Hundreds Hall itself. And Faraday begins to wonder if they are all threatened by something more sinister than a dying way of life, something that could subsume them completely.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594488801
- ISBN: 1594488800
- ISBN: 9781594484469
- ISBN: 9781844086023
- ISBN: 184408602X
- ISBN: 9781844086016
- Physical Description: 466 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
Content descriptions
- With Note:
- MARCIVE 05/06/09
- Formatted Contents Note:
- "A novel"--jacket
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- Physicians > Fiction.
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- Ghost stories.
Horror fiction.
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- 44 of 47 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Madison County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Madison Main Library | FIC WAT (Text) | 30229100609196 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mars Hill Library | FIC WAT (Text) | 30229100609188 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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