Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize. Filmed for the television and the inspiration for The Handmaiden London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away. Beautiful hardback 20th Anniversary Edition - with lovely endpapers, a ribbon and a new afterword by this celebrated author. Fingersmith remains one of her most successful and best-loved novels.
It's a pity that Waters' books aren't that well known in India. Fingersmith, like Affinity, is absolutely brilliant. The writing is so beautifully vivid, it actually spiritually transports you to Victorian England. There's nothing like historical fiction to familiarize readers with history.
There are plot twists that will leave you astounded, and the story itself is haunting. I don't care if it's a little unbelievable, because that's what this whole genre is for. The characters are dark, co...