The Little Stranger

17 hrs. 1 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Sarah Waters

Narrator Kirill Petrov

Description

Sarah Waters, a contemporary classic, has made the Booker Prize shortlist three times, including with the novel offered to you.

This ghost story, with echoes of classic novels by Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James and Shirley Jackson, Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier, unfolds in the decaying Hundred’s Hall manor, which is going through worse times: an overgrown exquisite park, half the rooms sealed off, guests have to be received in the basement floor, and in general it’s not profitable to be an aristocrat. As for the characters, we’ll let the author speak: “An aging Mrs. Ayres, captive to a fading style of life, her almost hopelessly unmarried daughter, and a son scarred by war. I gave them a young maid named Betty and a gentle friend—a doctor, Faraday—who will get tangled in the intricate web of their story, which is full of horror and transforms him. And, in addition, I introduced something like a ghost into their company…”

In 2018, a screen adaptation of “The Little Stranger” was released, directed by Lenny Abrahamson (“Room,” “Frank,” “What Richard Did”); the leading roles were played by Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter, and Charlotte Rampling.