The Little Stranger |
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Author:
Sarah Waters
By Virago Press Ltd
Average Customer Rating:   
List Price: £7.99
Our Price: £3.44
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781844086061
ISBN: 1844086062
Label: Virago Press Ltd
Manufacturer: Virago Press Ltd
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: 2010-01-05
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Studio: Virago Press Ltd |
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uummmm...., 2010-03-09
Having read a lot of the reviews, I eagerly read The Little Stranger. A reasonable start, thought the bit with Gip the dog was good and thought this was the start of someting big. It then got very tedious and a little, 'blah, blah, ish' ...but I stayed with it. It picked up its pace in the middle again, but, the ending....well, what a disappointment, who was the ghost???? Or have I completely missed the point. Having not read any Sarah Waters before, not sure atfer this i will either?
the little stranger, 2010-03-14
I liked it. It wasn't my choice. It was a book club member's. It was an easy read and although the characters were not really 'likeable' I felt a sympathy to them. Not a fan of mystery/spooky books but this was OK.
Very slow reading!, 2010-03-15
This was my first Sarah Waters book and I found it...like many other readers..to be slow and not scary at all. I kept waiting for it to pick up for something to happen but it just kept dragging on and the end was such a let down. I won't say too much more because I feel bad not liking it since the characters were actually interesting. This could have been a really good book if more effort was put into the plot. Hope that makes sense!
Don't waste your time .., 2010-03-17
Have given up on page 100 .. Like other people who have reviewed this book, I love the previous works of Sarah Waters but I struggled even to maintain any interest to get to page 100. The characters were totally unrealistic and the story really pedestrian. Started a book about science and it was more interesting so that's a pretty damning indictment of this !
Good but just a little slow for me, 2010-03-17
In brief: the relationship between a GP visiting an upper-class but financially almost destitute family struggling to retain their home after the war. As the doctor befriends the family, in particular the daughter, mysterious and sometimes shocking events occur increasingly frequently, ultimately with tragic consequences.
Not having read her previous novels, nor seen the TV adaptations, I had no preconceptions. I'd heard it compared as a ghost story to Turn of the Screw, and I can see why, but for me the length of The Little Stranger slightly undermines its effectiveness: the menace that so strongly pervades TotS is all the more shocking because of the relative brevity of the book. The post-war period in TLS is very well described, and the characters pretty well fleshed out; the attitudes of characters from different classes towards each other I think are believable, sometimes wincingly so.
This is a good book, and I will read more of her work, but I can't give it 5 stars.
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