Fingersmith: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Shortlisted
Feb 2011 · Hachette UK
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From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets
London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment Sue draws breath, her fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
'A page turning thriller while managing to be a tender love story' Adam Kay
'Intensely atmospheric, impeccably paced, and cunningly structured' Mail on Sunday
'A chilling, ingenious erotic thriller - unputdownable' Sunday Express
'Long, dark, twisted and satisfying... An unforgettable experience' Julie Myerson, Guardian
London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment Sue draws breath, her fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
'A page turning thriller while managing to be a tender love story' Adam Kay
'Intensely atmospheric, impeccably paced, and cunningly structured' Mail on Sunday
'A chilling, ingenious erotic thriller - unputdownable' Sunday Express
'Long, dark, twisted and satisfying... An unforgettable experience' Julie Myerson, Guardian
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4.6
71 reviews
Lauren Dunford
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April 12, 2014
This is the first novel that I have read that has been written by Sarah Waters. It was chosen by one of the other members of my book group. I did not know what to expect, but I really enjoyed it. I found it utterly absorbing from the first page to the very last page. It is very well written. It is rich in historical detail, plot and characterisation. It is moving, amusing and gripping in equal measure. It is also a gripping thriller, with lots of plot twists, a real page turner. Highly recommended.
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Lauren Green
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October 3, 2013
This book is amazing, everyone should read it!
Noraini Nelson
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April 10, 2015
A good romping read!
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About the author
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.
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