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Original Title:	Affinity
ISBN:	1573228737 (ISBN13: 9781573228732)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Stonewall Book Award for Literature (2001), Somerset Maugham Award (2000), Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction (2001), Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2000), このミステリーがすごい！ for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (2004)

Affinity

Sarah Waters

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 20822 Users | 1538 Reviews

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Title	:	Affinity
Author	:	Sarah Waters
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	January 8th 2002 by Riverhead Books (first published May 6th 1999)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. LGBT. Gothic. Mystery

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An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by one apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own.

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Oh, Sarah Waters, the lesbian Charles Dickens. Some think shes boring and I totally understand that. Nothing can be more mundane than flowing, ornate sentences filled with imagery strong enough to physically transport you to the setting, right? And dont get me started on that gorgeous historically accurate Victorian-style prose. Im half asleep just thinking about her engaging plots and characters. So, yeah, I can definitely see how it can be boring and how youd rather watch football or

Very atmospheric this one, Sarah Waters is so good at transporting the reader right to the heart of the grimness of Victorian London, or the creepiness of a country house.There's a great sense of time and place and of the stifling life Victorian women were forced to lead. The main character did begin to grate on me after a while, she was somewhat melodramatic and I didn't find myself rooting for her at all. The ending was satisfying and I loved the Gothic feel of the book but I much preferred

"Sexy, Spooky, Stylish" - that's the blurb on the cover. If I was not a Sarah Waters fan already, I would have picked up the book based on those words. How can you resist a book with that description? After reading the book, I can safely say that those words are an accurate description of Affinity. I will further add to that - "Haunting and magical."It seems, I have been reading many deliciously gothic novels recently. Well, I am not complaining! Affinity is yet another addition to my love for

Sarah Waters, at this stage, must be the accepted queen of Victorian Gothic lesbian melodrama; not, I imagine, that there is much competition for this title, but I think it's a deserved one nonetheless.In many ways, the plot of Affinity is like that of the other work of Waters' that I have read, Fingersmith. Crime and Victorian punishment, repression and sexuality and psychology, all feature heavily in both books. Affinity, however, is a much more satisfying novel for me. While it, too, hangs on

As seen on The ReadventurerIt is almost impossible to say anything about the plot of Affinity without spoiling something, so I'll refrain from recapping. A wealthy, depressed old maid starts visiting a women's prison and quickly finds herself taken by an inmate, a young spiritualist - that's all you need to know.Let's talk about feelings instead. This sense of emptiness and despair I am left with is so overwhelming right now, that it leads me to believe I might have liked Affinity even more than

This novel made me bawl my eyes out at sleep-over, one time. No joke, I was literally sobbing by the time I got to the end.Don't ask me why I was reading a novel instead of playing with the other kids at the sleep-over, you'll only make it worse.

This is the second Sarah Waters book I have read and I find her a most intriguing author. Whilst the first book The Little Stranger dealt with the effects of a (?haunted) house on its inhabitants, this book explores spiritualism. Those descriptions don't do the books justice however, they are much more complex and multilayered than I have made them sound.Affinity follows the story of Margaret Prior, a 'lady visitor' to a Victorian women's prison and her growing friendship / relationship with an