The Little Stranger

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

I love unreliable narrators! At least, I think he was unreliable. This is a gothic novel set in a decaying English country house just before World War II. The narrator, Dr. Farraday, whose mother was once a maid at the house, gets called to the house to care for a sick maid and gradually becomes emeshed with the impoverished family who is barely able to keep the house running. There's a sort of mystery at the core as major and minor tragedies overtake the house and the family. This is a long book, but the kind of book that rolls along in the best gothic brooding tradition.

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Reviewed by Jean S.