The Little Stranger By Sarah Waters

In a dusty post-war England, Hundreds Hall stands as a ghost of its former grandeur—a crumbling Georgian mansion where the Ayres family clings to fading gentility. When Dr. Faraday, a man of humble origins, is called to treat a young maid at the hall, he becomes entangled with the troubled family: Mrs. Ayres, living in the past; her son Roderick, scarred by war; and her daughter Caroline, plain and practical. But as Dr. Faraday visits more frequently, strange events begin to plague the house: eerie sounds, unexplained marks, and a growing sense of a malevolent presence. Is the hall truly haunted, or are the Ayreses victims of their own unraveling minds? Sarah Waters crafts a masterful, slow-burning gothic tale of class, obsession, and the terrifying possibility that the real horror may not be supernatural, but deeply, unsettlingly human.