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| Original Title: | Affinity |
| ISBN: | 1573228737 (ISBN13: 9781573228732) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Stonewall Book Award for Literature (2001), Somerset Maugham Award (2000), Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction (2001), Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2000), このミステリーがすごい！ for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (2004) |
Sarah Waters
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.74 | 20822 Users | 1538 Reviews
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An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by one apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own.
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| Title | : | Affinity |
| Author | : | Sarah Waters |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | January 8th 2002 by Riverhead Books (first published May 6th 1999) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. LGBT. Gothic. Mystery |
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Ratings: 3.74 From 20822 Users | 1538 ReviewsCriticize Appertaining To Books Affinity
I absolutely adored this. Sarah Waters is such an incredible writer and fast becoming one of my favourites. The plotting is brilliant, the themes fascinating, the historical world building spot on, and the charactisation impeccable. Would highly recommend!!Have you ever read a book and experienced de ja vu at the ending??? I thought this book was one I haven't read before (I still think so) but at the end.. it seemed vaguely familiar as if I had read it. I wasn't too surprised and thought "Wait.. I think I read this before." Chalk it up to the creepy experiences that Margaret Prior experiences through out the book. My thoughts/reactions:-The Victorian prison system was abysmal for inmates. The idea of spending years with the notion of no news of
Generally, I don't pick up random books at Barnes and Noble that I don't already know a little about. However, I made an exception with Affinity because it intrigued me so. I come to find out that was a pretty costly mistake. Firstly, the book dabbles in the supernatural psychics world which I already hold a serious distrust for. However, I thought this book might present the spiritual medium's world in a light that's a little more pretty and entertaining. No, instead I still feel oddly at ends
This is the second Sarah Waters book I have read and I find her a most intriguing author. Whilst the first book The Little Stranger dealt with the effects of a (?haunted) house on its inhabitants, this book explores spiritualism. Those descriptions don't do the books justice however, they are much more complex and multilayered than I have made them sound.Affinity follows the story of Margaret Prior, a 'lady visitor' to a Victorian women's prison and her growing friendship / relationship with an
Very atmospheric this one, Sarah Waters is so good at transporting the reader right to the heart of the grimness of Victorian London, or the creepiness of a country house.There's a great sense of time and place and of the stifling life Victorian women were forced to lead. The main character did begin to grate on me after a while, she was somewhat melodramatic and I didn't find myself rooting for her at all. The ending was satisfying and I loved the Gothic feel of the book but I much preferred
As seen on The ReadventurerIt is almost impossible to say anything about the plot of Affinity without spoiling something, so I'll refrain from recapping. A wealthy, depressed old maid starts visiting a women's prison and quickly finds herself taken by an inmate, a young spiritualist - that's all you need to know.Let's talk about feelings instead. This sense of emptiness and despair I am left with is so overwhelming right now, that it leads me to believe I might have liked Affinity even more than
Another extraordinary novel from Sarah Waters. I can't believe I'm only just now discovering these books. I'm amazed by her range and her ability to conjure another era in such an all-absorbing, spellbinding way. This one is an absolutely perfect Gothic mystery/tragedy/ghost story, set in a Victorian-era women's prison. If you read Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and felt like you'd never read anything as good again--well, it's time to get to know Sarah Waters.
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