Affinity Paperback - 2002
by Sarah Waters
A pulse-quickening read by the author of "Tipping the Velvet, Affinity" is a sophisticated and spine-tingling historical mystery awash with the sights, scenes, and smells of 19th-century London. This spellbinding ghost story has left British reviewers "transfixed with horror and excitement" ("Daily Mail, " London).
Summary
Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative
This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses.”The Seattle Times
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 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."
First line
Pa used to say that any piece of history might be made into a tale: it was only a question of deciding where the tale began, and where it ended.
Details
- Title Affinity
- Author Sarah Waters
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-01-08
- ISBN 9781573228732 / 1573228737
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.18 x 0.91 in (20.32 x 13.16 x 2.31 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, London (England)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99087554
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
—USA Today
“[Waters] displays her incredible talent for the Gothic historical novel in this splendid book about a Victorian women’s prison and the affair there between an inmate and a ‘lady visitor.’”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative…superbly suspenseful…This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses.”
—The Seattle Times
Citations
- New York Times, 04/21/2002, Page 28
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