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Oct 1, 2002 · Sarah Waters. Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch. Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching.
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Feb 4, 2002 · Share your opinion of this book. Imagine a university-educated lesbian Charles Dickens with a similarly keen eye for mendacity and melodrama, and you’ll have some idea of the pleasures lurking in Waters’s impudent revisionist historicals: Tipping the Velvet (1999), Affinity (2000), and now this richly woven tale of duplicity, passion, and ...
Sue Trinder, an orphan raised in "a Fagin -like den of thieves" by her adoptive mother, Mrs Sucksby, is sent to help Richard "Gentleman" Rivers seduce a wealthy heiress. Posing as a maid, Sue is to gain the trust of the lady, Maud Lilly, and eventually persuade her to elope with Gentleman. Once they are married, Gentleman plans to commit Maud ...
Apr 17, 2019 · Sarah Waters takes the conventions of the Victorian bodice-ripper genre and turns them on their head in a way that feels fresh, subversive, and breathlessly sexy. I’ve already read the book twice in rapid succession (it doesn’t take long because honestly, the last 250 pages demand to be read in a single sitting) and still can’t get enough ...
Apr 14, 2022 · Here’s my review of Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters. I actually far preferred it to her more recent book, The Paying Guests, which I found moved too slowly and didn’t have any characters I could relate to. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. I’m not a big reader of Victorian-era novels and wasn’t expecting to fall in love ...
Feb 14, 2022 · Fingersmith is award winning historical fiction set in 1862 London and at a country manor known as Briar. Like a Dickens novel, it features thieves, asylums, poor, rich and table turning, but this work also focuses on women, sex, matters of power/agency and the lack thereof. The story is told in three parts: two from point of view of Sue ...
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Oct 1, 2002 · Fingersmith. Paperback – October 1, 2002. by Sarah Waters (Author) 4.1 8,126 ratings. See all formats and editions. “Oliver Twist with a twist…Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story.”—. The New York Times Book Review.
