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The ageing, non-procreative body has become the weather-battered "fair house", fallen into dereliction because of want of "husbandry" on the part of the owner.
Like Waters's "The Night Watch," it's set in rural England, just after the Second World War, and like her novel "Affinity," it touches on the supernatural — in this case a ghost which may or may not inhabit Hundreds Hall, an estate house fallen on hard postwar times.
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The house fell silent.
Why did our house fall down?
"The house fell down beside us.
The entire house fell on us.
Their house falls between the two extremes.
The house fell down on me.
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