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Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

Start date: November 1, 2017

Finish date: December 15, 2017

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Why we're reading this: November - December 2017 Group Read
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Fingersmith, Part 3, Chapters 14-17
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Dec 10, 2016 Hugh rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: modern-lit, booker-shortlist, read-2016, womens-prize-shortlist

This was my first experience of reading Waters - I had been deterred by having seen some of the rather silly TV adaptation of Tipping the Velvet, but when this was chosen as a group read by the 21st Century Literature group I thought I should give it a chance.

Waters has clearly steeped herself in Victorian literature, and on one level this is a classic Victorian potboiler full of outlandish plot twists, coloured by the kind of period detail familiar from the likes of Dickens and Hardy.

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Nov 13, 2017 Jess Penhallow rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: uk, 19th-century, boxall-s

I adore this book! I didn't actually realise until a few chapters in that the film The Handmaiden http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4016934/?... was based on this book. When the recognition set it it was with a mix of happiness and disappointment. I was excited to read the origins of one of my favourite films of last year but disappointed that I already knew all the twists and turns of this wonderful plot.

At least I thought I did.

In actuality, the film goes in a completely different direction to the ...more

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