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Informationen zum Autor Sarah Waters was born in Wales. She has won a Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and her books have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Tipping the Velvet , Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have been adapted for television. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards, the Booksellers' Association, Waterstone's Booksellers and the Stonewall Awards. She lives in London. She was awarded an OBE in 2019. Klappentext From the award-winning author of Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith , shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker prize. 'Now you know why you are drawn to me - why your flesh comes creeping to mine, and what it comes for. Let it creep.' From the dark heart of a Victorian prison, disgraced spiritualist Selina Dawes weaves an enigmatic spell. Is she a fraud, or a prodigy? By the time it all begins to matter, you'll find yourself desperately wanting to believe in magic. 'Spooky, spellbinding, exquisitely written . . . I do believe Waters is on the way to becoming a major literary star' Val Hennessy 'Indeed, this is such a brilliant writer that her readers would believe anything she told them' A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail 'Refined, repressed and simmering . . . a delicious tale of Victorian spiritualism' Mel Steel, Independent on Sunday Vorwort An eerie and utterly compelling novel of mystery and seduction set in a women's prison in Victorian London. Zusammenfassung ' Affinity is the work of an intense and atmospheric imagination . . . Sarah Waters is such an interesting writer, a kind of feminist Dickens' Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Daily Telegraph Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870s, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London's most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners, murderers and common thieves, Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prisons more unlikely inmates - the imprisoned spiritualist - Selina Dawes. Sympathetic to the plight of this innocent-seeming girl, Margaret sees herself dispensing guidance and perhaps friendship on her visits, little expecting to find herself dabbling in a twilight world of seances, shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions. ...
Paru le : 25/06/2012
Thématique :
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Waters, Sarah
Éditeur(s) :
Virago Press Ltd
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : Non précisé.
EAN13 : 9781860496929
Pages : 368
Hauteur: 130.0 cm / Largeur 199.0 cm
Épaisseur: 23.0 cm
Poids: 0 g