Fingersmith

Name: Fingersmith
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Author: Sarah Waters
ISBN: 9781461812807

Author: Sarah Waters

Narrator: Juanita McMahon

Unabridged: 23 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/13/2011

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

New York Times best-selling author of Affinity (H1551), Sarah Waters was named Author of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards. Fingersmith was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize, and was chosen as book of the year 2002 by more organizations than any other novel. Orphaned as an infant, Susan Trinder was raised by Mrs. Sucksby, "mother" to a host of pickpockets and con artists. To pay her debt, she joins legendary thief Gentleman in swindling an innocent woman out of her inheritence. But the two women form an unanticipated bond and the events that follow will surprise every listener.

About Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters has written six novels: Tipping the Velvet (1998, Betty Trask Award); Affinity (1999, Somerset Maugham Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award); Fingersmith (2002, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, and winner of the South Bank Show Award for Literature and the CWA Historical Dagger); The Night Watch (2006, shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize); The Little Stranger (2009, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the South Bank Show Literature Award) and The Paying Guests (2014, shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction). She was included in Granta's prestigious list of 'Best of Young British Novelists 2003', and in the same year was voted Author of the Year at the British Book Awards and the BA Conference, and won the Waterstones Author of the Year Award. In April 2015 she joined the Council of the Society of Authors.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Amy on 2007-04-09 20:20:12

All of Sarah Waters novels are pure gold, written with such depth and honesty...but this one....this one of my favorite. I won't spoil it for you, but if you like Victorian romance novels with a twist...this, is for you!

Goodreads review by karen on June 05, 2022

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! lesbian dickens! now that i have your attention... dana has been bugging me to write a review of this for the longest time, and now that she is on vacation and out of my path for ten minutes (seriously - the girl moved to my town just so she could stand under my window all night c......more

Goodreads review by Violet on March 07, 2016

This novel, for me all pastiche, pasteboard and mirrors, really irritated me principally because I could have read two good novels in the time it took me to wade through it. For a start it’s way too long. It’s not like Waters is serving up any profound insights into human nature or casting her eye o......more

Goodreads review by Paul on August 12, 2012

This totally wonderful novel does exactly what the title says, it fingers your myth, it steals up on your soul and breathes down its neck and a shudder of pleasure is felt to the ends of all your extremities, your brain will wobble, your hair will vibrate strongly, and your eyebrows will be thrust u......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on August 06, 2016

This is a Victorian murder mystery with a lesbian romance. You will probably love it, but even if you don't, it's highly unlikely you will have read anything else quite like it.......more

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen on May 06, 2020

4.5/5 stars. I don't like to use this word but this book was definitely a "mind-fuck". I went into it not knowing much about it other than that Sarah Waters has written it, a lot of people have recommended it and I had previously read "Tipping the Velvet" by Sarah Waters, so I wanted to read more by......more