by Sarah Waters · VIRAGO PRESS LTD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781860498831
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«Fingersmith» is the historical and suspense novel by Sarah Waters, published by Virago Press in paperback (560 pages, in English).
In 1862 London, Sue Trinder, an orphan raised among pickpockets in Mrs Sucksby's house, agrees to Gentleman's plan, an elegant swindler: to enter as a maid to Maud Lilly, an innocent young woman, and help him seduce her to seize her inheritance. Inside the mansion, Sue begins to doubt, and soon nothing and no one is what it seems.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award and the Lambda Literary Award.
For readers of Victorian historical fiction, romance, and narrative with LGBTQ+ characters.
Sarah Ann Waters is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Fingersmith (2002). Both novels were adapted into TV mini-series by BBC in 2002 and 2005 respectively. The latter novel was also adapted into the South Korean film The Handmaiden (2016).
