The New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize contender that "delivers...a ghost story that creeps up your spine" (Seattle Times).
One post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline. Its owners-mother, son, and daughter-are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become intimately entwined with his.
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"The best book I read this year."
-Stephen King for Entertainment Weekly
"Deliciously creepy...a ghost story as intelligent as it is stylish"
-The Washington Post
"Sarah Waters is an excellent, evocative writer, and this is an incredibly gripping and readable novel."
-The New York Times Book Review (editor''s choice)
"A classic gothic page-turner."
-USA Today