Fingersmith Paperback - 2002
by Sarah Waters
In Victorian England, an orphan girl is sent to a country estate to work for-and ultimately woo-its young heiress, on behalf of a mysterious benefactor known as Gentleman.
Summary
Oliver Twist with a twist
Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story.”The New York Times Book Review
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thievesfingersmithsfor whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
One day, the most beloved thief of all arrivesGentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed ofpassed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum.
With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals
Details
- Title Fingersmith
- Author Sarah Waters
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 608
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-10-01
- ISBN 9781573229722 / 1573229725
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 1.3 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 3.30 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, London (England)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
—Los Angeles Times
“Oliver Twist with a twist…Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Astonishing narrative twists.”
—Newsday
“Superb storytelling. Fingersmith is gripping; so suspenseful and twisting is the plot that for the last 250 pages, I read at breakneck speed.”
—USA Today
“A deftly plotted thriller…absorbing and elegant.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“A marvelous pleasure…Waters’s noted attention to historical detail and her beautifully sensitive dialogue help to anchor the force-five plot twisters.”
—The Washington Post
“Calls to mind the feverishly gloomy haunts of Charlotte and Emily Brontë…Elaborate and satisfying.”
—The Seattle Times
“A sweeping read.”
—The Boston Globe
Citations
- Booksense '76 Jan/Feb 2003, 01/01/2003, Page 1
- Entertainment Weekly, 11/08/2002, Page 110
- New York Times, 11/10/2002, Page 24
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