7/7/2023 0 Comments Fingersmith amazon![]() ![]() This engrossing, atmospheric story takes us to the slums of nineteenth-century London, where Sue Trinder is an orphan who has been raised by petty thieves-“fingersmiths.” Her beloved adoptive mother has always said that Sue will make their fortune someday, and Sue deeply wishes to be able to repay her family for taking her in. The novel is like Charles Dickens meets Gillian Flynn, mixed with a romance I still can’t stop thinking about months later, honestly. It’s broken into my lineup of top ten favorite books of all time, which is quite a feat. I was reading PRETEND I’M DEAD by Jen Beagin, and someone is trying to convince the protagonist, Mona, to read THE ODYSSEY, but she says she’s busy reading “a Victorian homoerotic thriller called The Fingersmith. I can’t put it down.” I’d had FINGERSMITH by Sarah Waters on my shelf for years and never gotten around to it, but suddenly I had to start it immediately. I get book recommendations from a lot of places, but until recently I’d never had a novel recommended to me. ![]()
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