Sarah Waters

It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.For with the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the 'clerk class', the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. And as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be.This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with excruciating tension, real tenderness, believable characters, and surprises. It is above all, a wonderful, compelling story.

The "New York Times" bestseller and Booker Prize contender that "delivers...a ghost story that creeps up your spine" ("Seattle Times"). "One post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline. Its owners-mother, son, and daughter-are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. 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 intimately entwined with his.

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.

Sarah Waters 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.

Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching ...Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret ...Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover ...Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances ...Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.

A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the author of the Booker Prize finalist Fingersmith. Sarah Waters, whose works set in Victorian England have awards and acclaim and have reinvigorated the genres of both historical and lesbian fiction, returns with novel that marks a departure from nineteenth century and a spectacular leap forward in the career of this masterful storyteller.Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit liasons, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of Londoners: three women and a young man with a past-whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in ways that are surprising not always known to them. In wartime London, the women work-as ambulance drivers, ministry clerks, and building inspectors. There are feats of heroism, epic and quotidian, and tragedies both enormous and personal, but the emotional interiors of her characters that Waters captures with absolute and intimacy. Waters describes with perfect knowingness the taut composure of a rescue worker in the aftermath of a bombing, the idle longing of a young woman her soldier lover, the peculiar thrill convict watching the sky ignite through the bars on his window, the hunger a woman stalking the streets for encounter, and the panic of another who sees her love affair coming end. At the same time, Waters is absolute control of a narrative that offers up subtle surprises and exquisite twists, even as it depicts the impact grand historical event on individual lives.

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Margaret Prior es todavía joven, pero parece destinada a una solitaria soltería. Tras la muerte de su padre ha intentado suicidarse, y ahora, para acabar de reponerse, se dedica a las obras de caridad. Comenzara a visitar la prision de mujeres de Millbank e intentara ayudar a las internas a mejorar su vida espiritual. Y alli, entre asesinas, prostitutas y ladronas, la aguarda Selina Dawes, una medium espiritista. Acusada de estafa y de vejar a una jovencita en una de sus sesiones, Selina, de eterea belleza, insiste en su inocencia. Las visitas de Margaret se suceden, y crece su interes por la misteriosa joven. Y cuando Selina le anuncia que son los espiritus quienes han dispuesto que ella caiga presa para que las dos puedan encontrarse, Margaret solo desea creerla, y esta dispuesta a aceptar absolutamente todas sus sugerencias... "Una novela de terror llena de suspense, pero tambien una elegante, refinadisima, apenas velada novela erotica" (USA Today). "Un gran libro, de diabolica eficacia" (Livres Hebdo). "Sarah Waters cautiva, esto es, atrapa y seduce sin remedio al lector" (Miguel Sanchez-Ostiz, ABC).

Un polvoriento día de verano llaman al doctor Faraday a Hundreds Hall, la mansión de los Ayres, en el desolado centro de una Inglaterra de posguerra que está cambiando aceleradamente. Faraday ya había estado alli cuando era un niño y su madre era una de las criadas de la casa. Y se habia colado en las regias habitaciones, y, fascinado por tanta belleza, habia roto una moldura de los artesonados de un corredor y se la habia llevado.Ahora, gracias a los sacrificios de sus padres, es medico, aunque con una posicion social no muy comoda en el rigido sistema de clases ingles, y piensa que esta visita es un golpe de suerte. Pero Hundreds Hall ya no es mas que la sombra de si misma: las tapicerias cuelgan en jirones, la carcoma se ceba en el interior de la casa y las malas hierbas arrasan los jardines. La señora Ayres aun es una señora elegante, que mantiene como puede su dignidad. Roderick, su hijo, ha vuelto de la guerra cojo y enfermo. Se ocupa como puede de la casa y de la hacienda, y va vendiendo las tierras y la familia se va comiendo el capital. Su hermana Caroline, independiente, excentrica y masculina, ha tenido que volver a Hundreds Hall para ayudarlo. Pero los Ayres han llamado al doctor Faraday para que se ocupe de Betty, la joven criada de catorce años, que quiza solo esta enferma de miedo, aterrorizada por aquello que percibe en la casa. Porque siempre son los niños y los animales los primeros en advertir lo siniestro. Y aunque nadie la cree, en Hundreds Hall se oyen ruidos inexplicables, se ven sombras fugaces y marcas de fuego en las paredes, y las cosas mas familiares pueden volverse atrozmente perversas...Una novela estupenda... Una notable incursion en el genero (Miguel Artaza, El Correo Español).Si lo que buscas es un libro-cepo, de esos que te enganchan y de los que no hay quien se zafe hasta el final, hazte con El ocupante de una Sarah Waters grandiosa (Sonia Rueda, 20 Minutos).

Sue Trinder, una joven huerfana de diecisiete años, es enviada a una mansión en el campo como doncella de la joven Maud Lilly, tambien huerfana y de su misma edad. Pero Sue va con una misión: ayudar a Richard Rivers, el Caballero, un aristocrata desclasado, a seducir a la inocente Maud. Porque el Caballero planea casarse con la joven, recluirla luego en un manicomio y gozar de la fortuna que Maud ha heredado. Hay un obstaculo, claro esta, el excentrico tio de Maud, un bibliofilo empedernido. Aunque en la mansion nada es lo que parece, y la experimentada Sue resultara ser mucho mas inocente que la inocente Maud, a quien su tio ha educado para que sea la lectora de su secreta biblioteca de pornografia, para deleite de el y de su circulo de refinados amigos... "Una novela tan inteligente, tan atractiva, que si ustedes, como yo, desconfian de las novelas historicas, deberian abandonar todos sus prejuicios. Waters no es solo una buena escritora de novela historica, es una de nuestras mejores escritoras, sin mas" (M. Thorne, Independent on Sunday).