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Waters, Sarah Affinity
Virago Fiction 2008 1-84408-500-7 / 9781844085002 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Affinity is a tale of power and possession that Henry James himself might a dmire. In her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters explored secret s and longing--capping off this lesbian romp with a utopian-socialist visio n. Her intricate follow-up is just as sensual but infinitely darker, its mo ral more difficult to descry. Its stylistic and psychological rewards, howe ver, are visible at every turn, the author's persuasive imagination matched by her gift for storytelling. In late September 1874, Margaret Prior makes her way through the pentagons of London's Millbank Prison, a place of fearful symmetry and endless corrid ors. This plain woman on the verge of 30 has come to comfort those behind b ars, several of whom Waters brings to instant, sad life. And our lady visit or plans to take her role seriously, having recovered from two years of ner vous indolence in her family's Chelsea house. One person, however, makes he r job a passion. Opening an inspection slit (or "eye" as these devices are known), Margaret hears "a perfect sigh, like a sigh in a story". Peering in ward, she's confronted by the most erotic of visions--a woman turned toward s the sun, caressing her cheek with a forbidden violet: "As I watched her, she put the flower to her lips, and breathed upon it, and the purple of the petals gave a quiver and seemed to glow..." The medium Selina Dawes may indeed have the face of a Crivelli angel, but she is in prison for fraud and assault. Suffice to say that the first full encounter between these two very different women is enthralling. "You think spiritualism a kind o
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Waters, Sarah Fingersmith
Virago Press 2003 1-86049-883-3 / 9781860498831 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Fingersmith is the third slice of engrossing lesbian Victoriana from Sarah Waters. Although lighter and more melodramatic in tone than its predecessor Affinity, this hypnotic suspense novel is awash with all manner of gloomy Dickensian leitmotifs: pickpockets; orphans; grim prisons; lunatic asylums; "laughing villains" and, of course, "stolen fortunes and girls made out to be mad". Oliver Twist (which is mentioned on the opening page), The Woman in White and The Prince and the Pauper all exert an influence on it but non e overawe. Like Peter Ackroyd, Waters has an uncanny gift for inventive rec onstruction. Divided into three parts, the tale is narrated by two orphaned girls whose lives are inextricably linked. It begins in a grimy thieves kitchen in Borough, South London with 17-year-old orphan Susan Trinder. She has been raised by Mrs Sucksby, a cockney Ma Baker, in a household of fingersmiths (pickpockets), coiners and burglars. One evening Richard "Gentleman" Rivers, a handsome confidence man, arrives. He has an elaborate scheme to defraud Maud Lilly, a wealthy heiress. If Sue will help him she'll get a share of the "shine". Duly installed in the Lillys' country house as Maud's maid, Sue finds that her mistress is virtually a prisoner. Maud's eccentric Uncle Christopher, an obsessive collector of erotica (loosely modelled on Henry Spenser Ashbee) controls every aspect of her life. Slowly a curious intimacy develops between the two girls and as Gentleman's plans take shape, Sue begins to have doubts. The scheme is finally hatched but as Maud commences her narrative it sud
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