{"product_id":"9780771087899","title":"The Little Stranger","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFingersmith\u003c\/i\u003e comes an astonishing novel about love, loss, and the sometimes unbearable weight  of the past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Both a nuanced  evocation of 1940s England and the most chill-inducing novel of psychological suspense  in years, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Sarah Waters as one of the finest and most  exciting novelists writing today.","brand":"Sarah Waters","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Like New","offer_id":52733082075360,"sku":"9780771087899","price":10.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0561\/3381\/2415\/files\/9780771087899-l.webp?v=1779565460","url":"https:\/\/yooneekbooks.ca\/products\/9780771087899","provider":"Yooneek Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}