The Little Stranger is a 2009 gothic novel written by Sarah Waters. It is a ghost story set in a dilapidated mansion in Warwickshire, England in the 1940s. Waters' fifth novel features a male narrator, a country doctor who makes friends with a family with faded fortunes left simply with a very old estate that is crumbling around them.
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Narrator: Kymberly Dakin
A space opera where a bad-girl heroine meets a bio-engineered hero. They go through risky adventures. Will they manage to survive? (In the best traditions of R. Heinlein)
Search-and-rescue worker Sarah Patrick and Monty, her talented golden retriever, take center stage in this deft, suspenseful outing. The immensely appealing heroine was introduced as a secondary character in Iris Johansen's previous thriller The Killing Game. Back, too, is John Logan from Face of Deception, the charismatic billionaire whose very personal vendetta against a stop-at-nothing killer pulls Sarah into a high-stakes game of search and destroy.
Philip Marsham was bred to the sea as far back as the days when he was cutting his milk teeth. His mother died when he was but a child. A few years later, he ran away from school to join his father aboard the ship, Sarah. In his nineteenth year, Phil was stricken with fever while his father sailed with the Sarah. Phil was sent to regain his health at an inn owned by Moll Stevens. This was in London, England, during the reign of Charles I.
Everyone knows that sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach just before diving into a new situation. Sarah Jane Hartwell is scared and doesn't want to start over at a new school. She doesn't know anybody, and nobody knows her. It will be awful. She just knows it. With much prodding from Mr. Hartwell, Sarah Jane reluctantly pulls herself together and goes to school. She is quickly befriended by Mrs. Burton, who helps smooth her jittery transition. This charming and familiar story will delight readers with its surprise ending.
