Vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog proberen de Engelse eigenaars van een groot vervallen landhuis het gebouw en de landerijen van de ondergang te redden; ze krijgen daarbij te maken met waanzin, modernisering en paranormale verschijnselen. NL-ZmNBD

The Little Stranger

Waters, Sarah, 1966-; Groen, Nico; Kwakkel, Richard; Rooijen, Lucie van (L.A.)

Sarah Waters; Nico Groen, redacteur/vert.; Richard Kwakkel; Lucie van Rooijen

Sarah Waters, Jaime Zulaika Goicoechea

Singel Uitgeverijen

Dedicon

Netherlands, Netherlands

Grave, 2010

2021

Met lit. opg.

Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, *The Little Stranger* is Sarah Waterss most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.
After her award-winning trilogy of victorian novels, sarah waters turned to the 1940s and wrote the night watch, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime britain shortlisted for both the orange and the man booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart in a dusty post-war summer in rural warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at hundreds hall home to the ayres family for over 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 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 entwined with his prepare yourself from this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.

494 p. ; 22 cm
Vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog proberen de Engelse eigenaars van een groot vervallen landhuis het gebouw en de landerijen van de ondergang te redden; ze krijgen daarbij te maken met waanzin, modernisering en paranormale verschijnselen
Met lit. opg

2023-06-28