The Little StrangerSarah Waters' masterly novel is gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining Hilary Mantel In 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 with a changing