Affinity (Virago V S.) - Softcover

Waters, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349018499 ISBN 13: 9780349018492

Verlag: Virago, 2024

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An eerily brilliant and spooky tale of spiritualism and deception

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Sarah Waters, who was born in Wales, has been described as 'one of the best storytellers alive today' (Matt Thorne, Independent), and there can be no doubt that readers and critics alike have been gripped by her extraordinary imagination. Sarah Waters' first novel, Tipping the Velvet, won a Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her next novel, Affinity, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The former also won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. The Little Stranger was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009 and The Paying Guests was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize in 2015. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have all been adapted for television, The Little Stranger was adapted as a film by Lenny Abrahamson, and Fingersmith inspired Park Chan-wook's film, The Handmaiden. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year five times: by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association, Waterstone's Booksellers, Glamour Magazine Awards and the Stonewall Awards. In 2019 she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.

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'Waters is creepily conversant with ways to scare us' Hilary Mantel

From the dark heart of a Victorian prison, disgraced spiritualist Selina Dawes weaves an enigmatic spell: 'Now you know why you are drawn to me - why your flesh comes creeping to mine and what it comes for. Let it creep.'

'Refined, repressed and simmering... a delicious tale of Victorian spiritualism' Independent on Sunday

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Virago
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0349018499
• ISBN 13: 9780349018492
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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