| The Little Stranger |  | Author: Sarah Waters
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  161 reviews
Sales Rank: 34
Media: Paperback
Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.6
ISBN: 1844086062
EAN: 9781844086061
Publication Date: January 5, 2010
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 161
 Very slow reading! March 15, 2010
J. MCCULLOCH (England)
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!
 the little stranger March 14, 2010
Miffy (UK)
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.
 uummmm.... March 9, 2010
S. Dale (Worcestershire UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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?
Not at all scary March 9, 2010
Harriet James (Scotland, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I confess to this being the first Sarah Waters I have read. I bought it as part of a pack of the TV bookclub books (even though I am not following that on TV) as I thought it would be a selection of interesting books to read. I was looking forward to being scared and thrilled by it, but I mostly wasn't. A few other reviewers have talked about the dreariness of the house and the flatness of the characters and I agree. The book took a long time to get going and although there were one or two marginally scary parts, I would never in a month of Sundays say that I was 'so scared I had to stop reading' as others have. Perhaps I live in a much more terrifying real world, but I don't think so!
I also thought that there was a certain amount of license - because she had other bestsellers under her belt, that allowed this to get published. If it was her first book and she was sending it off to publishers/agents, would the first 50 pages have got her a call back? I'm not sure. Not much happens in them! I did comment to my husband that I was '150 pages in and it was finaly beginning to show signs of spookiness'.
It was entertaining enough, but overlong and a bit dull. I wasn't really scared throughout it at all.
 the little stranger March 7, 2010
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1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was chosen by my book group, and I started to read with some trepidation having looked at the blurb which said things like 'I had to sleep with the light on...' But I really enjoyed it, it's a page-turner, set in post-war warwickshire. Technically a ghost story I suppose, but very well written (listed for the Man Booker prize) and dwelling more on the effect of the 'happenings' on the people involved, and the way the same events can be interpreted differently by different people. Recommended!
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