Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by one apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. An upper class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Now, Sarah Waters brilliantly returns with Affinity a haunting ghost story and Guardian London bestseller that has left British reviewers ‘transfixed with horror and excitement’ Daily Mail, London. Critics compared her to Jeannette Winterson, adding that ‘readers of all sexes and orientations should identify’ with Waters’s unforgettable nineteenth century hero*ines. com, ‘buoyant and accomplished’ The New York Times Book Review, ‘glorious’ The Boston Globe, and ‘wonderful’ San Francisco Chronicle.
Greeted with enthusiastic praise, Sarah Waters’s debut novel, Tipping the Velvet, was lauded as ‘amazing’ and ‘delightful’ Salon. It’s gorgeous.’ The Independent on Sunday UKĪ spellbinding ghost story set in Victorian London. ‘An unstoppable read, a sexy and picaresque romp through the lesbian and queer demi monde of the roaring Nineties. Drawing comparison to the work of Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Waters’s novel is a feast for the senses an erotic, lushly detailed historical that bursts with life and dazzlingly casts the turn of the century in a different light.
In time, Kitty breaks her heart, and Nan assumes the guise of butch roue to commence her own thrilling and varied sexual education a sort of Moll Flanders in drag finally finding friendship and true love in the most unexpected places. When Kitty is called up to London for an engagement on ‘Grease Paint Avenue, ‘ Nan follows as her dresser and secret lover, and, soon after, dons trousers herself and joins the act. ‘Lavishly crammed with the songs, smells, and costumes of late Victorian England’ The Daily Telegraph, this delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross dressing music hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler.
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