Fingersmith

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Named one of EntertaLnment Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2002
"Superb storytelling. Finger^mith is gripping; so suspenseful and twisting is the plot that for the last 250 pages, I read at breakneck speed." — USA Today
"A deftly plotted thriller with two equally compelling heroines, orphans Sue Trinder and Maud Lilly. Manipulated by someone she knows only as Gentleman, Sue is sent to a comitiy estate to work as Maud's maid and help him woo the simple heiress. The plot twists—then again and again—until one girl is in a terrifying insane asyliun and another held captive. An absorbing and elegant story that's old-fashioned in the best way." —Entertainment Weekly
British Book Awards Winner of "Author of the Year"
"Oliver Twist with a twist: female and sexually aware This is a \lctorian novel the Victorians never dreamed of writing Waters spins an absorbing tale that wdthholds as much as it discloses She writes great Gothic, her descriptive skill augmented by an acute ear for... Tovább

Fülszöveg

FICTION
Named one of EntertaLnment Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2002
"Superb storytelling. Finger^mith is gripping; so suspenseful and twisting is the plot that for the last 250 pages, I read at breakneck speed." — USA Today
"A deftly plotted thriller with two equally compelling heroines, orphans Sue Trinder and Maud Lilly. Manipulated by someone she knows only as Gentleman, Sue is sent to a comitiy estate to work as Maud's maid and help him woo the simple heiress. The plot twists—then again and again—until one girl is in a terrifying insane asyliun and another held captive. An absorbing and elegant story that's old-fashioned in the best way." —Entertainment Weekly
British Book Awards Winner of "Author of the Year"
"Oliver Twist with a twist: female and sexually aware This is a \lctorian novel the Victorians never dreamed of writing Waters spins an absorbing tale that wdthholds as much as it discloses She writes great Gothic, her descriptive skill augmented by an acute ear for dialogue Dickens .would surely have blushed to read it." — The New York Tun&) Book Review
"A marvelous pleasure Waters's noted attention to historical detail and her beautifiilly sensitive dialogue help to anchor the force-five plot twisters."
— The Washington Podt
"Addicted to its atmosphere and himg up on its plot, I gulped it exhaustedly until 3 A.M., only to sleep and dream that I was still caught among its urgent, unnerv-mg characters There are always novels that you envy people for not yet having read, fór the pleasures they still have to come. Well, this is one. Long, dark, twisted and satisfying, it's a fabulous piece of writing, but Waters's most impressive achievement is that she also makes it feel less like reading, more like living: an unforgettable experience." — The Guardian
/ ; : . . . Finalist for The Orange Prize for Fiction Vissza