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Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger

May 1, 2009

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Sarah Waters discusses her new book, The Little Stranger, a haunted house story set in 1940s Britian.

Waters' trilogy of Victorian novels, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith, earned her legions of fans around the world, a number of awards, and a reputation as one of the most gifted of today's historical novelists. With The Night Watch, Waters turned to the 1940s and delivered a tender and complex novel of relationships that brought her the greatest success she has achieved to date.

Now, with The Little Stranger, Waters returns to the fertile setting of Britain in the 1940s, and brings us a sinister tale of a haunted house that brims with the rich atmosphere and psychological complexity that have become hallmarks of her work.

Co-sponsored with the Harvard Bookstore.

Topics: Culture & Identity | History | Literature & Philosophy

Tags: Authors | female literature | lesbian literature | modern literature | novelist | romance | Fiction | Film & Video | Lifestyle | GLBTQ | Sexuality | Women's Issues

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The Little Stranger

Author: Sarah Waters

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (2009)

Binding: Hardcover, 480 pages

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