Sarah Waters is a modern classic, “an author so brilliant that readers are willing to believe every word she says” (Daily Mail) - shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times, including with this novel. This story with haunted, in which echoes of the classic books of Dickens and Edgar Poe, Henry James and Shirley Jackson, Agatha Christie and Daphne Du Maurier are heard, takes place in the dilapidated estate of Hundreds Hall, which is going through hard times: the elegant park is overgrown, half of the rooms are mothballed, guests have to be received in on the ground floor, and in general it is not profitable to be an aristocrat. As for the characters, let's give the floor to the author: “The aging Mrs. Ayres, a captive of the elusive former lifestyle, her almost hopelessly unmarried daughter and war-wounded son. I provided them with a young maid named Betty and a gentle friend - Dr. Faraday, who will become entangled in the intricacies of their story, which has gained horror and transformed him. To top it off, I gave them something like a ghost..."In 2018, a film adaptation of The Little Stranger, directed by Leonard Abrahamson (Room, Frank, What Richard Did), starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson, will be released. , Will Poulter, Charlotte Rampling.