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A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith. Sarah Waters’s trilogy of Victorian novels Tipping the Velvet , Affinity , and Fingersmith earned her legions of fans around the world,... read more
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I first saw Hundreds Hall when I was ten years old. It was the summer after the war, and the Ayreses still had most of their money then, were still big people in the district. The event was an Empire Day fete: I stood with a line of other village children making a Boy Scout salute while Mrs Ayres and the Colonel went past us, handing out commemorative medals; afterwards we sat to tea with our parents at long tables on what I suppose was the south lawn. Mrs Ayres would have been twenty-four or five, her husband a few years older; their little girl Susan, would have been about six. They must have made a handsom family, but my memory of them is vague. I recall most vividly the house itself, which struck me as an absolute mansion. I remember its lovely ageing details: the worn red brick, the cockled window glass, the weathered sandstone adgings. They made it look blurred and slightly uncertian - like an ice, I thought, just beginning to melt in the sun.
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Authors & Contributors
- Sarah Waters (Author)
Awards
- Man Booker Prize (Finalist, 2009)
- Short listed for the Man Booker prize (2009)
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