Sarah Waters

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Dancing With Mr. Darcy (Oct-2010)

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  Affinity
  

  • May-2000
  • / Suspense
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  “Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative…This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses.” -- The Seattle Times An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s w...

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  Tipping the Velvet
  

  • May-2000
  • / General Fiction
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  “Erotic and absorbing…Written with startling power.” -- The New York Times Book Review   Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbu...

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  Fingersmith
  

  • Feb-2002
  • / Historical
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  Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transie...

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  The Night Watch
  

  • Apr-2006
  • / General Fiction
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  “[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character.” -- Chicago TribuneMoving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with ...

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  The Little Stranger
  

  • May-2009
  • / Literary
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  From the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith comes an astonishing novel about love, loss, and the sometimes unbearable weight of the past. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is call...

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  Dancing With Mr. Darcy
  

  • Oct-2010
  • / Historical
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  Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  

  An anthology of the winning entries for the Jane Austen Short Story Award Two hundred years ago, Jane Austen-- traumatized by her parents' decision to give up the rectory in Hampshire where she grew up, and unable to write for a decade--accepted her...

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  The Paying Guests
  

  • Sep-2014
  • / Historical Mystery
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  From the bestselling author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith, an enthralling novel about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London. It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the ...

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Award-Winning Books by Sarah Waters

Affinity
2001 Stonewall Book Award -- Fiction
The Night Watch
2006 Lambda Literary Award -- Lesbian Fiction