Affinity by Sarah Waters
In the shadows of Victorian London, a tale of obsession and redemption unfolds.Margaret Prior, an upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, 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 on 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.
As in her noteworthy deput, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the New York Times Book Review, of "startling power."
At the University of Leeds, Sarah Waters is a Lecturer in French Studies. She is a prolific writer on the theory and practice of French social movements, with her most recent book, Social Movements in France: Towards a New Citizenship, published by Palgrave in 2003, receiving high praise.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781573228732 |
| ISBN 10 | 1573228737 |
| Title | Affinity |
| Author | Sarah Waters |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2002-01-08 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize., Winner of London Times Novelist of the Year. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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