Fingersmith : shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Fingersmith : shortlisted for the Booker Prize
ISBN: 9781860498831
Publication Date: 3 February 2003

The Orange Prize short-listed, Booker Prize short-listed, critically adored, new novel from the author of Tipping the Velvet and Affinity. A story of fraud, insanity and secrets worthy of Wilkie Collins.

London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.

About the Author

Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has been shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes and three of her four novels have been adapted for television.