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<p>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 on 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.</p> <p>As in her noteworthy deput, <b>Tipping the Velvet</b>, Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, of "startling power." A tale that will leave readers "transfixed with horror and excitement" (<i>Daily Mail</i>, London) <b>Affinity</b>, in its accomplishment

Who reads Affinity?

Author

Sarah Waters

Publisher

Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781573221566

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.73 / 5 (13,787 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14