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| Genre/Form: | Ghost stories Horror fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Waters, Sarah, 1966- Little stranger. London : Virago, 2009 (OCoLC)649003320 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah Waters |
| ISBN: | 9781844086023 184408602X 9781844086016 1844086011 |
| OCLC Number: | 303020446 |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for The South Bank Show Awards: Literature 2010. Shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Fiction 2007. Long-listed for Orange Prize 2010. Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011. |
| Description: | 501 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Sarah Waters. |
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It's a gripping story, with beguiling characters ... As well as being a supernatural tale, it is a meditation on the nature of the British and class, and how things are rarely what they seem. Chilling Kate Mosse, The Times, Summer Read Waters writes with a firm, confident hand, deftly building an atmosphere that begins in a still, hot summer and gradually darkens and tightens until we are as gripped by the escalating horror as the Ayres are. She is particularly good at depicting Hundre Tracy Chevalier, Observer By now readers must be confident of her mastery of storytelling ... While at one turn, the novel looks to be a ghost story, the next it is a psychological drama ... But it is also a brilliantly observed story, verging on the comedy, about Britain on the cusp of modern age ... The writing is subtle and poised Joy lo Dico, Independent on Sunday Displaying her remarkable flair for period evocation, Waters recreates backwater Britain just after the Second World War with atmospheric immediacy ... Acute and absorbing Peter Kemp, Sunday Times Read more...
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