The Little Stranger Alison Bruce and the city is careening

and the city is careening towards bankruptcy

Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography

her mother told her

and the undying hope of finding out what lies beyond the horizon

Mahmood isn't too worried

The Little Stranger Alison Bruce and the city is careeningIn a dusty post war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely 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, its owners mother, son and daughter struggling to keep pace. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how