Sarah Waters

Born 21 Jul 1966

From Neyland, Wales, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom · Writes fiction

Sarah Ann Waters ((born 21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.

Source: Sarah Waters on Wikipedia.

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“With me and my queer nature, that set me so at odds with the world and all its ordinary rules, I could not find a place in it to live and be content.”
Affinity

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Books by Sarah Waters in order

Books by Sarah Waters in the order they were published, from How Newspapers Are Made (1989) to Ustaparmak (2016).

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Wilkie CollinsVictorian sensation novelist whose plotting, unreliable narrators and secrets Waters often echoes, especially in Fingersmith.
Michel FaberWrites richly detailed Victorian fiction about a sex trade and social hypocrisy, close in period and mood to Waters' work.
Daphne du MaurierGothic novelist whose country-house settings and haunted narrators are a useful comparison for The Little Stranger.
Henry JamesHis ghost story The Turn of the Screw shares Affinity's themes of watching, uncertainty and a constrained female narrator.
Alan HollinghurstWrites frankly about gay life and desire across British social classes, covering themes readers of Waters often look for.
Emma DonoghueWrites historical fiction centred on women and queer relationships, including Frog Music and Slammerkin.

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