From the celebrated author of Tipping the Velvet and Affinity comes an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets.London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the...

It is 1922, and in a hushed south London villa life is about to be transformed, as genteel widow Mrs Wray and her discontented daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the...

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, the clock in its stable...

The Little Stranger von Waters, Sarah

'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary MantelIn a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres...

'Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.' A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical...

Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th century. von Waters, Sarah

From the award-winning author of Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith, shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker prize.'Now you know why you are drawn to me - why your flesh comes creeping to mine, and what it comes for. Let it...

"Tipping the Velvet" von Sarah Waters ist ein historischer Roman, der im viktorianischen England spielt. Die Geschichte folgt der jungen Nancy Astley, die in einem kleinen Küstenort als Austernmädchen arbeitet. Ihr Leben ändert sich...

Irresistibly conjuring up a delicious Dickensian world of baby farmers, pickpockets and devious double-crossers, Fingersmith is the landmark novel from this much-celebrated author von Waters, Sarah

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