Sarah Waters. (2009). The Little Stranger. Penguin Publishing Group.

Sarah Waters. 2009. The Little Stranger. Penguin Publishing Group.

Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger. Penguin Publishing Group, 2009.

Sarah Waters. The Little Stranger. Penguin Publishing Group, 2009.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1523-1/{8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1523-1/828/648/5B/{8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1523-1/828/648/5B/{8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781101052549
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B0023EFB32
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781101052549
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781594484469

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Sarah Waters

title

The Little Stranger

dateAdded

2014-02-07T16:09:00+00:00

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=238639
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Little Stranger

crossRefId

238639

id

8286485b-34e0-4f3f-bd96-5752f709dc9d

starRating

3.3

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: TheLittleStranger_9781101052549_238639
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 2664605
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781101052549
   • rights:
     1. • type: Copying
        • value: 0
     2. • type: Printing
        • value: 0
     3. • type: Lending
        • value: 0
     4. • type: ReadAloud
        • value: 0
     5. • type: ExpirationRights
        • value: 0
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • onSaleDate: 4/30/2009
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/828/648/5B/LittleStranger9781101052549.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: TheLittleStranger_238639
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B0023EFB32
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 4/30/2009
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/828/648/5B/LittleStranger9781101052549.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
3. • fileName: TheLittleStranger_9781101052549_238639
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781101052549
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 4/30/2009
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/828/648/5B/LittleStranger9781101052549.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: literary fiction
2. • value: teen books
3. • value: Fiction
4. • value: novels
5. • value: supernatural
6. • value: Thrillers
7. • value: suspense
8. • value: Young Adult
9. • value: Horror
10. • value: Thriller
11. • value: betrayal
12. • value: scary books
13. • value: literature
14. • value: fiction books
15. • value: books for teens
16. • value: thriller books
17. • value: mysteries and thrillers
18. • value: sarah waters
19. • value: horror novels
20. • value: young adult books
21. • value: mystery thriller suspense
22. • value: ya books
23. • value: horror books
24. • value: books for teen girls
25. • value: suspense books
26. • value: books for teen boys
27. • value: teen girl books
28. • value: teen boy books
29. • value: books for 13 year old boys
30. • value: books for 13 year old girls
31. • value: books for 14 year old girls
32. • value: books for 14 year old boys

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Waters, Sarah
   • name: Sarah Waters

imprint

Riverhead Books

publishDate

2009-04-30T00:00:00-04:00

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

The Little Stranger

fullDescription

Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson.
"The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive 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. Its owners—mother, son, and daughter—are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. 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 intimately entwined with his.

reviews

1. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     Starred review from March 30, 2009
     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
     . Doctor Faraday, a lonely bachelor, first visited Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked as a parlor maid, at age 10 in 1919. When Faraday returns 30 years later to treat a servant, he becomes obsessed with Hundreds's elegant owner, Mrs. Ayres; her 24-year-old son, Roderick, an RAF airman wounded during the war who now oversees the family farm; and her slightly older daughter, Caroline, considered a “natural spinster” by the locals, for whom the doctor develops a particular fondness. Supernatural trouble kicks in after Caroline's mild-mannered black Lab, Gyp, attacks a visiting child. A damaging fire, a suicide and worse follow. Faraday, one of literature's more unreliable narrators, carries the reader swiftly along to the devastating conclusion.

2. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     May 1, 2009
     A sinister ancestral hoe in an advanced state of decay, a family terrorized by its own history, and a narrator drawn into these orbits dominate this creepy novel from Waters (The Night Watch, 2006, etc.).
     
     Shortly after the end of World War II, and nearly 30 years after first seeing magnificent Hundreds Hall as an awestruck ten-year-old, hardworking Doctor Faraday is summoned to the now-shabby Warwickshire estate to treat a young housemaid's illness. Widowed Mrs. Ayres, her son Roderick, crippled and traumatized by injuries sustained during his wartime tenure as a RAF pilot, and bluff, pleasant daughter Caroline quickly accept Faraday as a friend, and he is initially enchanted by the family's stoical perseverance as Hundreds Hall falls into ruin and farmlands are sold to pay off mounting debts. But worse awaits: The family's gentle dog Gyp unaccountably and severely bites a visiting young girl, and neither Faraday's continuing professional ministrations nor his growing love for plucky Caroline can save these reclusive prewar relics from the supernatural presences seemingly arisen from their past. Waters' scrupulously engineered plot builds efficiently to a truly scary highpoint halfway through her long narrative. But tensions relax perilously, as the doctor's repeated emergency visits to Hundreds Hall become almost risibly indistinguishable, and even crucial dramatic moments are muffled by fervent conversations among the four major characters. Furthermore, too many crucial pieces of information are relayed secondhand, as Faraday summarizes accounts of other people's experiences. Still, Waters has extended her range agreeably, working in traditions established by Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan le Fanu and Wilkie Collins, expertly teasing us with suggestive allusions to the classics of supernatural fiction. A subtle clue planted in one character's given name neatly foreshadows, then explains, the Ayres family's self-destructive insularity.
     
     Flawed but nevertheless often gripping thriller from one of the most interesting novelists at work today.

     (COPYRIGHT (2009) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

3. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     May 15, 2009
     Few authors do dread as well as Waters ("The Night Watch"). Her latest novel is a ghost story with elements of both "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Brideshead Revisited". In post-World War II Britain, the financially struggling Dr. Faraday is called to Hundreds Hall, home of the upper-class Ayreses, now fallen on hard times. Ostensibly there to treat Roderick Ayres for a war injury, Faraday soon sees signs of mental declinefirst in Roderick and later in his mother, Mrs. Ayres. Waters builds the suspense slowly, with the skeptical Faraday refusing to accept the explanations of Roderick or of the maid Betty, who believe that there is a supernatural presence in the house. Meanwhile, Faraday becomes enamored of Roderick's sister Caroline and begins to dream of building a family within the confines of the ruined Hundreds Hall. This spooky, satisfying read has the added pleasure of effectively detailing postwar village life, with its rationing, social strictures, and gossip, all on the edge of Britain's massive change to a social state. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 12/08.]Devon Thomas, Chelsea, MI

     Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

4. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     May 1, 2009
     Waters darkly atmospheric fifth novel is set at a decaying mansion in postwarEngland. The narrator, Dr. Faraday, first visited Hundreds Hall as a child, when his mother, a servant at the great manor, brought him there for a party. Nearly three decades later, he returns on a professional call and soon finds himself growing close to the owners: the widowed Mrs. Ayers, who has never gotten over the death of her oldest daughter, and her two adult children, Caroline and Roderick. Faradaytreats Rodericks war injury butwatches helplessly as the young man, who is convinced there is an evil presence in the house, slides into madness. After a devastating incidentinvolving a youngneighbor, Faraday finds he has no choice but to commit Roderick to a mental institution. Faraday finally faces the feelings hes developed for Caroline, but the malevolent force shadowingHundreds Hall hasnt finished with the Ayers family yet. An eerie ghost story mixed with piercing class commentary, Waters latest is downright haunting.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)

popularity

1503

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/8286485b-34e0-4f3f-bd96-5752f709dc9d/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

8286485b-34e0-4f3f-bd96-5752f709dc9d

starRating

3.4

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1523-1/{8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1523-1/828/648/5B/{8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1523-1/828/648/5B/{8286485B-34E0-4F3F-BD96-5752F709DC9D}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fiction
2. • value: Horror
3. • value: Literature
4. • value: Thriller

publishDateText

04/30/2009

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781594488801

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson.
"The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive 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. Its owners—mother, son, and daughter—are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. 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...

sortTitle

Little Stranger

crossRefId

238639

awards

1. • source: The Booker Prize Foundation
   • value: Man Booker Prize for Fiction Nominee

publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC015000
   • description: Fiction / Horror
2. • code: FIC019000
   • description: Fiction / Literary
3. • code: FIC030000
   • description: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense