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Sarah Waters

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Title	:	Affinity
Author	:	Sarah Waters
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	January 8th 2002 by Riverhead Books (first published May 6th 1999)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. LGBT. Gothic. Mystery

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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 one 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.

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Original Title:	Affinity
ISBN:	1573228737 (ISBN13: 9781573228732)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Stonewall Book Award for Literature (2001), Somerset Maugham Award (2000), Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction (2001), Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2000), このミステリーがすごい！ for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (2004)

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Sarah Waters sets the atmosphere of this early on. Does gothic always take place at an old mansion hidden in fog? No, here it is Millbank prison on the banks of the Thames River. Let's not forget the spirits that we can expect in a gothic novel - certainly Sarah Waters has not.To Millbank. It is only a week since my last visit, but the mood of the prison has shifted, as if with the season, and it is a darker and more bitter place now, than ever. The towers seemed to have grown higher and

When I first finished this book, I rated it 4 stars because my head was still spinning from the very clever twists at the end. But now I come to review the book and it is very definitely a 5 star read for me.This darkly gothic tale takes part in Victorian London and Waters' writing really paints a vivid and stark portrait of what it must have been like living there, and in particular what life was like in a women's prison. When I started reading the first chapter, I thought I wasn't going to

This novel made me bawl my eyes out at sleep-over, one time. No joke, I was literally sobbing by the time I got to the end.Don't ask me why I was reading a novel instead of playing with the other kids at the sleep-over, you'll only make it worse.

Generally, I don't pick up random books at Barnes and Noble that I don't already know a little about. However, I made an exception with Affinity because it intrigued me so. I come to find out that was a pretty costly mistake. Firstly, the book dabbles in the supernatural psychics world which I already hold a serious distrust for. However, I thought this book might present the spiritual medium's world in a light that's a little more pretty and entertaining. No, instead I still feel oddly at ends

I absolutely adored this. Sarah Waters is such an incredible writer and fast becoming one of my favourites. The plotting is brilliant, the themes fascinating, the historical world building spot on, and the charactisation impeccable. Would highly recommend!!

A book for all Seasons: picked strictly for the cover

As far as Im concerned this book is good. Like all of Sarah Waters books. This one is just not as good as Fingersmith. In this you see a dark world of prison for women and of séances. Ive read it multiple times and it holds up every time. It stay in the four star range but I think I enjoy it more each time. As for characters I really do find everyone believable, interesting and well worth exploring. The romance is solid and kept my attention without to much frill. Overall this book is worth the