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What is Fingersmith about?

Sarah Waters offers an intriguing blend of mystery and suspense, secrets and betrayal in her evocative Victorian underworld page-turner.London, 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her ‘family’ of unwanted babies turned artful dodgers - ‘fingersmiths’. When one of Mrs Sucksby’s scams places Sue as a lady’s maid to an orphan heiress in a sprawling Gothic mansion, the narrative explores even darker corners, among the pinched corsets and rustling skirts of Victorian England.“Oliver Twist with a twist...Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story.” — The New York Times Book Review "This is a Victorian novel the Victorians never dreamed of writing. Yet Waters keeps reminding us of what they did write ... Metaphors about reading are scattered throughout the novel, suggesting the vicarious life Maud has to suffer while she is tied to her uncle's catalog of dirty books...Literature as enslaver, books as concealers of truth: Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses ... She writes great Gothic, her descriptive skill augmented by an acute ear for dialogue."

Who reads Fingersmith?

Author

Sarah Waters

Publisher

Riverhead Books; Penguin Group

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781573229722

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.02 / 5 (9,923 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14