The Little Stranger

Author : Sarah Waters
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551993392
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Stranger written by Sarah Waters and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith comes an astonishing novel about love, loss, and the sometimes unbearable weight of the past. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to see a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the once grand house is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its garden choked with weeds. All around, the world is changing, and the family is struggling to adjust to a society with new values and rules. Roddie Ayres, who returned from World War II physically and emotionally wounded, is desperate to keep the house and what remains of the estate together for the sake of his mother and his sister, Caroline. Mrs. Ayres is doing her best to hold on to the gracious habits of a gentler era and Caroline seems cheerfully prepared to continue doing the work a team of servants once handled, even if it means having little chance for a life of her own beyond Hundreds. But as Dr. Faraday becomes increasingly entwined in the Ayreses’ lives, signs of a more disturbing nature start to emerge, both within the family and in Hundreds Hall itself. And Faraday begins to wonder if they are all threatened by something more sinister than a dying way of life, something that could subsume them completely. Both a nuanced evocation of 1940s England and the most chill-inducing novel of psychological suspense in years, The Little Stranger confirms Sarah Waters as one of the finest and most exciting novelists writing today.

Author : Louis Sachar
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408812479
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger written by Louis Sachar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside was closed to get rid of the infestation of cows! Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every floor. Miss Mush has prepared a special lunch of baked liver in purple sauce and it is pet day on the 30th floor. There are dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and an orange named Fido, causing a terrible commotion. But the biggest surprise of all is that Mrs Jewls is expecting a baby and a substitute teacher is coming, and everyone knows what that means . . . Wayside School is going to get a little stranger.

Author : Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416553444
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House Next Door written by Anne Rivers Siddons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by an all-pervasive evil, and the couple watches as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves.

Author : Sarah Waters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350014087
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night Watch written by Sarah Waters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I thought everything would change, after the war. And now, no one even mentions it. It is as if we all got together in private and said whatever you do don't mention that, like it never happened. It's the late 1940s. Calm has returned to London and five people are recovering from the chaos of war. In scenes set in a quiet dating agency, a bombed-out church and a prison cell, the stories of these five lives begin to intertwine and we uncover the desire and regret that has bound them together. Sarah Waters's story of illicit love and everyday heroism takes us from a dazed and shattered post-war Britain back into the heart of the Blitz, towards the secrets that are hidden there. Olivier-nominated playwright Hattie Naylor has created a thrilling and theatrically inventive adaptation of a great modern novel. The stage adaptation of The Night Watch was premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, on 16 May 2016.

Author : Candia McWilliam
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408822970
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Stranger written by Candia McWilliam and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy needs to hire a new nanny for her son; the efficient and capable Margaret Pride appears to be the perfect candidate. But as Daisy becomes increasingly removed from family life and the nanny becomes more prominent, oddities in Margaret's behaviour soon surface. Masterfully constructed and crackling with tension, A Little Stranger reveals that self-deception can be just as dangerous as the deceit of others.

Author : Lisa Olstein
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556594321
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Stranger written by Lisa Olstein and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Olstein's third collection reverberates with twinned realities: wonder and terror, beauty and difficulty, celebration and lament. Through encounters with science, war, art, animals, and motherhood, Little Stranger explores the exigencies of close attention, the tenuousness of attachment, and the ever more rapidly shifting nature of knowledge. Intimate lyrics, elegies, and narratives speak in voices familiar yet strange. Lisa Olstein's debut collection of poetry, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), won the Hayden Carruth Award, and her second volume, Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), was named a "Best Poetry Book of the Year" by Library Journal. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Author : Sarah Waters
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781573228732
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affinity written by Sarah Waters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative…This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses.”—The Seattle Times An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own. As in her noteworthy deput, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the New York Times Book Review, of "startling power."

Author : Sarah Waters
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101052546
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Stranger written by Sarah Waters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kate Pullinger
Publisher : Kate Pullinger Books
ISBN 13 : 0992851939
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Stranger written by Kate Pullinger and published by Kate Pullinger Books. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes everything is not enough... Fran has a good life: a happy marriage to a successful man, a healthy, sweet-natured toddler, a nice London flat. Then, one day, she walks out, leaving it all behind. As Fran travels to Las Vegas and on to Vancouver she is haunted by memories of her own childhood and driven to reconnect with her estranged mother, Ireni, whose descent into alcoholism has left her destitute. Will understanding why her own mother failed as a parent help Fran lay the ghosts of her past to rest and return home to her husband and child, or is she destined to repeat her mother’s mistakes? Praise for A Little Stranger: “The dark side of motherhood explored in a tale of terror and rage” Independent “Gripping, sharp and brilliantly kind. She knows the gamble that life is and she never once flinches. Her books are always revelations. What a good read” Ali Smith “Pullinger treats with thoughtful sympathy that profound taboo, the breaking of the mother-baby bond” Guardian “A Little Stranger is that extraordinary thing: a mix of literary excellence and finesse combined with a very ordinary and accessible look at life” Sunday Express

Author : Ruth Solski
Publisher : On The Mark Press
ISBN 13 : 1550354191
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar : a Novel Study written by Ruth Solski and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The zany world of Wayside School will delight your students while the activities in our lit link guide their learning. Chapter questions and additional activities in vocabulary, word study, and personal development.