Something that can split itself off from us - and start causing havoc." "Or in conflict, or repressing something. "Some kind of dark energy that could be produced when we're unhappy," she notes. But during her research for The Little Stranger, she became intrigued by theories about what causes poltergeists.
Waters says she's not the sort of person who believes in ghosts in real life. Its inhabitants are bedeviled not just by their sinking economic status but also by odd noises, along with peculiar behavior from the family dog. Hundreds Hall, the novel's Gothic setting, is haunted - but perhaps not by what you'd expect. One of this season's best-reviewed new novels, The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters, is a ghost story set at a crumbling Warwickshire manor house in postwar England.
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