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Zusatztext Displaying her remarkable flair for period evocation! Waters recreates backwater Britain just after the Second World War with atmospheric immediacy . . . Acute and absorbing Informationen zum Autor Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has been shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes and three of her four novels have been adapted for television. Klappentext In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire! a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries! the Georgian house! once grand and handsome! is now in decline! the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. 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 entwined with his. Prepare yourself for a chilling ghost story from the shortlisted Man Booker and Orange Prize author. * A ghost story from one of Britain´s finest and best loved writers. The major literary event of 2009 Zusammenfassung After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels! Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote THE NIGHT WATCH! a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain. Shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker! it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire! a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries! the Georgian house! once grand and handsome! is now in decline! its masonry crumbling! its gardens choked with weeds! the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. 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 entwined with his. Prepare yourself. From this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us! now comes a chilling ghost story. ...
