This author is celebrated for her masterful storytelling and ability to immerse readers in richly imagined historical settings. Her works frequently explore complex relationships and unconventional journeys, delving into themes of identity, desire, and societal norms. Driven by a profound engagement with literary history and meticulous research, she crafts narratives that are both compelling and intellectually resonant. Her approach to writing, stemming from an academic background, emphasizes careful world-building and psychological depth.
Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme devised by their leader, Gentleman, who is planning to con a fortune out of the naive Maud Lily, but Sue's growing pity for their helpless victim could destroy the plot.
A reissue with a new introduction to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters's wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy debut novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century.
“[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character.”—Chicago Tribune Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners—three women and a young man with a past—whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event.
Now you know why you are drawn to me - why your flesh comes creeping to mine, and what it comes for. Let it creep.From the dark heart of a Victorian prison, disgraced spiritualist Selina Dawes weaves an enigmatic spell. Is she a fraud, or a prodigy? By the time it all begins to matter, you’ll find yourself desperately wanting to believe in magic.
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers
Soon to be a major motion film starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson and Charlotte Rampling. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall, the residence of the Ayres family for more than two centuries. Its owners, mother, son and daughter, are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as conflicts of their own. But the Ayreses are haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life.
An anthology of the winning entries in the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009, which celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen's arrival in Chawton House, where she spent the most productive years of her literary life. The intention of the prize is to publish the very best short fiction inspired by Jane Austen or Chawton House. Chair of Judges is bestselling author Sarah Waters.
Sarah Waters, de bekroonde auteur van drie romans die zich afspelen in het Victoriaanse Londen, keert terug met een verbluffende roman die een afwijking van de negentiende eeuw markeert. Teruggaand naar de jaren veertig, door luchtaanvallen, verduisterde straten, verboden liefdes, seksuele avonturen, om te eindigen met het begin in 1941, is The Night Watch het werk van een werkelijk briljante en boeiende verhalenverteller. Dit is het verhaal van vier Londenaren - drie vrouwen en een jonge man met een verleden - getekend met absolute waarheid en intimiteit. Kay, die tijdens de oorlog een ambulance bestuurde en het leven ten volle leefde, kleedt zich nu in mannelijkere kleren en dwaalt met een rusteloze honger door de straten, op zoek ... Helen, slim, lief, geliefd, heeft een pijnlijk geheim ... Viv, een glamourmeisje, is koppig, zelfs dom, loyaal aan haar soldatenlief ... Duncan, een schijnbaar onschuldige, heeft zijn eigen demonen te bestrijden gehad tijdens de oorlog. Hun levens en geheimen verbinden zich op soms verrassende manieren. Oorlog leidt tot vreemde allianties ...
Een negentiende-eeuwse jonge vrouw uit de Engelse middenklasse die vrouwen in de gevangenis bezoekt als sociale bezigheid, raakt in de ban van een raadselachtige vrouw die veroordeeld is omdat ze als spiritiste betrokken was bij iemands dood.
