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1. www.kirkusreviews.com › sarah-waters › fingersmithFINGERSMITH | Kirkus Reviews

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   Feb 4, 2002 · Dated sermonizing on career versus motherhood, and conflict driven by characters’ willed helplessness, sap this tale of poignancy. Share your opinion of this book. Imagine a university-educated lesbian Charles Dickens with a similarly keen eye for mendacity and melodrama, and you’ll have some idea of the pleasures lurking in Waters’s ...

2. www.goodreads.com › book › showFingersmith by Sarah Waters | Goodreads

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   Oct 1, 2002 · Sarah Waters. Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch. Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching.

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4. www.commonsensemedia.org › movie-reviews › fingersmithFingersmith Movie Review | Common Sense Media

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   Based on 1 parent review. Basil K. Adult. February 23, 2023. age 14+. This gothic novel turned into a serialized show is appropriate for 12-14+ It involves romance, theft and deception but in the end love always wins. Show more. Rate movie. See all 1 parent review.

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   • Actors: Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins

   • Director: Aisling Walsh
   • Produce Company: Acorn Media

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Fingersmith_(novel)Fingersmith (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Fingersmith is a 2002 historical crime novel set in Victorian-era Britain by Sarah Waters. ... a review from The Guardian describes it as "erotic and unnerving", ...

6. offtheshelf.com › 2019 › 04Review: FINGERSMITH by Sarah Waters | Off the Shelf

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   Apr 17, 2019 · Sarah Waters takes the conventions of the Victorian bodice-ripper genre and turns them on their head in a way that feels fresh, subversive, and breathlessly sexy. I’ve already read the book twice in rapid succession (it doesn’t take long because honestly, the last 250 pages demand to be read in a single sitting) and still can’t get enough ...

7. theboar.org › 2024 › 04A book review of ‘Fingersmith’ by Sarah Waters - The Boar

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   Apr 1, 2024 · A book review of ‘Fingersmith’ by Sarah Waters. ue Trinder, a Victorian orphan girl living in a thieves’ den, is approached with a unique, dangerous, and potentially profitable opportunity. A man who her and her friends call ‘Gentleman’ plans to seduce and marry naïve heiress Maud Lilly, then have her thrown in a madhouse and steal ...

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   Is fingersmith a treasure?

   • I hope you devour them and then spread the word, because FINGERSMITH is a treasure. Sarah Water's Dikensian novel FINGERSMITH is "engrossing, atmospheric story takes us to the slums of nineteenth-century London"—OLIVER TWIST with a twist.

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   Is fingersmith a petty thief?

   • Fingersmith is an archaic term for a petty thief, but given the content of the novel, it can also be assumed to have intentionally sexual connotations. Waters is known for writing lesbian fiction, and is a lesbian herself.

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   Is fingersmith a Man Booker Prize shortlisted story?

   • Sue agrees, and what follows is a Man Booker Prize shortlisted tale of lies, passion, and betrayal that refuses to be put down. Released in 2002, Fingersmith was the third novel by Welsh author Sarah Waters, and her third set in Victorian England.

   A book review of ‘Fingersmith’ by Sarah Waters - The Boar

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   Is 'fingersmiths' like Charles Dickens meets Gillian Flynn?

   • The novel is like Charles Dickens meets Gillian Flynn, mixed with a romance I still can’t stop thinking about months later, honestly. This engrossing, atmospheric story takes us to the slums of nineteenth-century London, where Sue Trinder is an orphan who has been raised by petty thieves—“fingersmiths.”

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9. www.goodreads.com › author › showSarah Waters (Author of Fingersmith) - Goodreads

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   Sarah Waters. Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch. Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching.