Sarah Waters
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born
January 01, 1966
gender
female
place of birth
Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales, The United Kingdom
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genre
Literature & Fiction
influences
Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter
about this author
Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch.
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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters avg rating 4.00 — 3,524 ratings — published 2002 20 editions |
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Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters avg rating 4.02 — 3,310 ratings — published 1998 15 editions |
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The Night Watch by Sarah Waters avg rating 3.47 — 1,960 ratings — published 2006 16 editions |
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Affinity by Sarah Waters avg rating 3.63 — 1,517 ratings — published 1999 14 editions |
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The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters avg rating 3.58 — 1,044 ratings — published 2009 13 editions |
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The Mechanics' Institute Review: Issue 2 by Sarah Waters, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Niki Aguirre (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2005 |
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Dancing with Mr Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen by Sarah Waters avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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A Day at the Farm by Sarah Waters, Tony Wells avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1992 |
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Tier-Babys by Sarah Waters, Theresa O'Brien avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1993 |
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Freunde Gottes by Sarah Waters avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1996 |
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"We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy."
— Sarah Waters (Fingersmith)
— Sarah Waters (Fingersmith)
"It is a world that is made of love. Did you think there is only the kind of love your sister knows for her husband? Did you think there must be here, a man with whiskers, and over here, a lady in a gown? Haven't I said, there are no whiskers and gowns where spirits are? And what will your sister do if her husband should die, and she should take another? Who will she fly to then, when she has crossed the spheres? For she will fly to someone, we will all fly to someone, we will all return to that piece of shining matter from which our souls were torn with another, two halves of the same. It may be that the husband your sister has now has that other soul, that has the affinity with her soul—I hope it is. But it may be the next man she takes, or it may be neither. It may be someone she would never think to look to on the earth, someone kept from her by some false boundary..."
— Sarah Waters (Affinity)
— Sarah Waters (Affinity)
"She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.
p.195"
— Sarah Waters (The Night Watch)
p.195"
— Sarah Waters (The Night Watch)
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