![]() But, simply by convenience and familiarity, Dr. Faraday may well be a doctor but he came out of the working classes. The gentry may be having a hard time keeping it all together but they are still the gentry. The Ayers are rather isolated at Hundreds Hall and Faraday becomes a sort of friend, although none of them ignore the difference in social class. Faraday, he loves the old house in spite of the ruin into which it is falling. To return to Hundreds Hall is a delight to Dr. He was drawn with wonder to the house as a boy and he feels that wonder still. Faraday was taken to Hundreds Hall by his mother, who had been a nursery maid there before her marriage. It is the first time since he was a boy that Dr. Faraday is called in to care for Roderick who might, perhaps, respond to an experimental electrical stimulation to his wounds. ![]() Caroline, who is happiest tromping about the woods with her dog, Gyp. Roderick, home from the war, suffering both physical and mental wounds from which he has not completely recovered. ![]() Ayers and her two adult children Roderick and Caroline. The Ayers are selling off land and struggling to keep their home. ![]() But things are not what they were before the war. The Ayers are gentry, landholders, and the owners of Hundred Hall, the family estate. I was immediately drawn into the post World War II life of the Ayers family. I very much enjoyed Sarah Waters earlier book Night Watch so I picked up her new novel, The Little Stranger, to read recently. ![]()
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