Sarah Waters





Sarah Waters

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in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales, The United Kingdom
July 21, 1966

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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.
Waters attended university, and earned degrees in English literature. Before writing novels, Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching. Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she began as soon as the thesis was complete.


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Novelist and Queen Mary alumna Sarah Waters has received an Honorary Fellowship from the University, presented by Professor Margaret Reynolds of the School of English and Drama.


Sarah said: “I am absolutely thrilled to be receiving an Honorary Fellowship from Queen Mary. I have many happy memories of my time as a postgraduate student at the university, and the academic work I did there was ver...

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Average rating: 3.81 · 69,758 ratings · 6,876 reviews · 10 distinct works · Similar authors
Fingersmith
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 21,220 ratings — published 2002 — 42 editions
Tipping the Velvet
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 18,172 ratings — published 1998 — 36 editions
The Little Stranger
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 13,114 ratings — published 2009 — 49 editions
The Night Watch
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 8,764 ratings — published 2006 — 43 editions
Affinity
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 7,924 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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3.02 of 5 stars 3.02 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
The Mechanics' Institute Re...
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010
Memories of 1968: Internati...
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“And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.”
Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

“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

“It's a curious, wanting thing.”
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

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