Book Review: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
In the newest from Sarah Waters, set in postwar Britain, a family living in a dilapidated manor house are befriended by a country doctor whose mother had been a servant there. They have the mundane troubles of the fading gentry: lack of money, the seeming irrelevance of their class in the new England, a house that they can't maintain. With all that difficulty, it seems superfluous when a malevolent poltergeist manifests, apparently intent on tormenting them to the point of madness.
I love this writer. Her sense of place is incredibly vivid and her characters tug at your heart. Like many of her novels, this one starts slow and then grabs you by the throat and won't let go - I was up until 2:00 a.m. finishing it.
