I have just finished reading A Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. At 500 pages it is a long novel, and the length put me off reading it for about a year. However it is so well written, and the story is so compelling that when I began I read it in about a week.
The house in the novel reminded me of Brodsworth Hall in Yorkshire, and I kept looking at the guidebook to Brodsworth, so perfectly did the descriptions match.
The novel has many themes, and in particular is about the power of the mind and the imagination. It is also a very evocative description of the decline of the gentry families in the years following the Second World War. Comparable in importance to the 1981 Play for Today Country.
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