Sarah Waters





Sarah Waters

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

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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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In Finland, book bloggers voted for best fiction titles that were translated into Finnish in 2011. Altogether 32 bloggers posted their top picks giving out 135 votes for 61 different titles, and Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger got the most votes.


The book is called Vieras kartanossa in Finnish. It was published by Tammi Publishers and translated by Helene Bützow.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 37,401 ratings · 5,252 reviews · 15 distinct works
Fingersmith
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 11,079 ratings — published 2002 — 29 editions
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Tipping the Velvet
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 8,853 ratings — published 1998 — 27 editions
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The Little Stranger
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 7,865 ratings — published 2009 — 35 editions
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The Night Watch
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 5,234 ratings — published 2006 — 35 editions
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Affinity
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 4,194 ratings — published 2000 — 18 editions
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Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Storie...
3.07 of 5 stars 3.07 avg rating — 140 ratings5 editions
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Eāzu Ke No Botsuraku: 2
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010
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Tonkai︠a︡ Rabota
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007
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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 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

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