“‘There’ll be tricks, tonight. I can sense it.’” – The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Rural Britain just after the Second World War…an English country house falling prey to entropy…the Ayres family, consisting of a widowed mother and her two adult children, the last of the line, huddled around a fireplace in a desperate attempt to stay warm… Dr. Faraday gets drawn into the lives of the Ayreses when he goes to Hundreds Hall, the family’s ancestral home, to treat a maid who has fallen ill. He subsequently offers to help Roderick Ayres, a former RAF pilot, cope with a leg injury s