The Little Stranger

The New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize contender that "delivers... a ghost story that creeps up your spine" (Seattle Times). One post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday 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 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.

Sarah Waters is the author of Tipping the Velvet, a New York Times Notable Book, Affinity, which won her they Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch, both of which were shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize. She lives in London.