Sarah Waters, who was born in Wales, has been described as 'one of the best storytellers alive today' (Matt Thorne, Independent), and there can be no doubt that readers and critics alike have been gripped by her extraordinary imagination. Sarah Waters' first novel, Tipping the Velvet, won a Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her next novel, Affinity, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The former also won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. The Little Stranger was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009 and The Paying Guests was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize in 2015. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have all been adapted for television, The Little Stranger was adapted as a film by Lenny Abrahamson, and Fingersmith inspired Park Chan-wook's film, The Handmaiden. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year five times: by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association, Waterstone's Booksellers, Glamour Magazine Awards and the Stonewall Awards. In 2019 she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.
Totally immersive with brilliantly drawn characters... a
page-turning thriller while managing to be a tender love story
*Adam Kay*
Intensely atmospheric, impeccably paced, and cunningly structured,
this is that rarity in contemporary fiction: a deeply serious novel
that is also a thumping great read
*Mail on Sunday*
There are always novels that you envy people for not having read
yet, for the pleasure they still have to come. Well, this is one.
Long, dark, twisted and satisfying, it's a fabulous piece of
writing... An unforgettable experience
*Guardian*
One of the best twists of any book, one that lifts the novel from a
brilliant piece of modern Victoriana to something altogether more
original and daring... Fingersmith, like so many great books, calls
into question our desire to fit novels into restrictive boxes... If
you like a great story, brilliantly told, you'll love this book
*The Times*
A chilling, ingenious erotic thriller - unputdownable
*Sunday Express*
She distils a slice of London Victoriana, involving pickpockets,
orphans and identity, into a fantastic plot and handles the story
so well that you just can't wait to get to the end
*Tracy Chevalier*
High spirited and utterly compelling
*Observer*
Serious entertainment... One of the most startling plot twists
you'll ever read
*The Times*
A thrillerish plot, fast-moving with umpteen cunning twists, it is
inhabited by richly human characters whose fortunes instantly
engage the reader
*Sunday Telegraph*
Fingersmith's tight and intricate plotting and full-flavour
characters follow in a fine tradition of gothic storytelling, full
of love, villains and intrigue
*Observer*
This disquietingly twisted tale will engross
*Guardian*
Deliciously brazen... A smart and seductive enchantment
*Los Angeles Times*
Fingersmith is the third slice of engrossing lesbian Victoriana
from Sarah Waters. Although lighter and more melodramatic in tone
than its predecessor Affinity, this hypnotic suspense novel is
awash with all manner of gloomy Dickensian leitmotifs
*Travis Elborough*
Oliver Twist with a twist... Waters spins an absorbing tale that
withholds as much as it discloses... A pulsating story
*New York Times Book Review*
Superb storytelling. Fingersmith is gripping; so suspenseful and
twisting is the plot that for the last 250 pages, I read at
breakneck speed
*USA Today*
A deftly plotted thriller... absorbing and elegant
*Entertainment Weekly*
A marvelous pleasure... Waters's noted attention to historical
detail and her beautifully sensitive dialogue help to anchor the
force-five plot twisters
*Washington Post*
Calls to mind the feverishly gloomy haunts of Charlotte and Emily
Bronte... Elaborate and satisfying
*Seattle Times*
A richly woven tale of duplicity and passion... nobody writing
today surpasses the precocious Waters's virtuosic handling of
narrative complexity and thickly textured period detail. This is a
marvelous novel
*Kirkus*
A sweeping read
*Boston Globe*
Astonishing narrative twists
*Newsday*
Fingersmith is not only a double female bildungsroman but a
breathtaking love story, a crime novel, a historical tour de force
and it has the single most astonishing midpoint reversal of any
novel that I have ever read in my life . . . The rest of us are
mere shadows in the face of Sarah Waters' brilliance. This novel is
a masterclass in writing no matter what genre you are writing
in'
*Julie Mae Cohen*
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