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1) Fingersmith
Author
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Set in 1860s London, this is the story of Susan, a pickpocket who is persuaded to pose as a lady's maid and infiltrate the house of a young heiress. This novel explores the nature of identity and what people do with disguise.
Author
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap. Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms - as something like two great waddling shillings. But this, she thought, was what it really meant to have paying guests: this odd, unintimate proximity, this rather peeled-back moment, where the only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Virago
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
'Tipping the Velvet' is a wonderfully lush, sensous and bawdy novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century. Nan gets to meet her heroine, Kitty, a male impersonator. The two begin a double act, and their affection for each other deepens.
Author
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Ent
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Drama based on the novel by Sarah Waters in which a highly respected doctor questions his science-based beliefs when a family are torn apart by their haunted past. When Dr Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson) is called out to tend to a patient dwelling in the vast and decaying Hundreds Hall, a country manor which stood as a landmark of his childhood, he is shocked to find the state of disrepair that the once grand building is now enduring. Called out to treat...
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Anna Maxwell Martin, Claire Foy and Jodie Whittaker star in this BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters' historical novel. Set in 1940s London, the film follows the interconnected relationships of four characters during the Second World War. Helen (Foy) is in a turbulent relationship with Julia (Anna Wilson-Jones), while her assistant Viv (Whittaker) is having an affair with married soldier Reggie (Liam Garrigan). Meanwhile, Kay (Maxwell Martin), an ambulance...