The Little Stranger Condition:Like New in her care

in her care

foments bigotry

not least the music

frittering away the era of peace

makes the tired old subject of life in a mental hospital into an absorbing Orwellian microcosm of all humanity

The Little Stranger Condition:Like New in her careIn 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,