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She describes her family as "pretty idyllic, very safe and nurturing." Her father, "a fantastically creative person," encouraged her to build and invent. Her mother was a housewife and her father an engineer who worked on oil refineries. Sarah Waters grew up in Wales in a family that included her father Ron, mother Mary, and sister.

Education-B.A., University of Kent M.A., Lancaster University Ph.D., University of London.

Where-Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK.

Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his.Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, The Little Stranger is Sarah Waters’s most thrilling and ambitious novel yet. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand 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.īut are the Ayreses haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall.

Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. The Little Stranger follows the strange adventures of Dr. We're saying that it was something of him.In this chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain.Sarah Waters revisits the fertile setting of Britain in the 1940s-and gives us a sinister tale of a haunted house, brimming with the rich atmosphere and psychological complexity that have become hallmarks of Waters’s work. We're not saying that it was the physical boy. And the image of the boy is a kind of representation of that.

"That's where that happens and that's where you feel the house has absorbed something. At the moment where the boy breaks the acorn, that's the moment at which his rage, desire, impotent longing, and knowledge that he'll never be accepted. Faraday and he are discussing whether or not, under significant pressure, the subconscious might somehow fracture from the conscious and become a force by itself. "There's a scene earlier on with the other doctor in the pub. " I suppose what that image of the boy at the end is saying is that the force in the house is something that came from the child. Faraday said a final farewell to Hundreds Hall, but as he left he was watched by the spectre of himself as a young child - at the age of and in the clothes that he wore when he visited the house as a child and stole part of the plaster fixtures of the house.Ībrahamson again offered an explanation for that choice of the final image.