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Affinity by Sarah Waters

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Affinity

Author
Sarah Waters
Narrator
Juanita McMahon
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Publish Date
25 September 2014
Run Time
14 hours 59 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

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What to expect

Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870's , AFFINITY is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London's most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners, murderers and common thieves, Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prisons more unlikely inmates - the imprisoned spiritualist - Selina Dawes. Sympathetic to the plight of this innocent-seeming girl, Margaret sees herself dispensing guidance and perhaps friendship on her visits, little expecting to find herself dabbling in a twilight world of seances, shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions.

Critics Review

  • Refined, repressed and simmering... a delicious tale of Victorian spiritualism

    Independent on Sunday

  • Spooky, spellbinding, exquisitely written... I do believe Waters is on the way to becoming a major literary star

    Val Hennessy

  • Beautifully, atmospherically written, this is a tale to thrill your very soul

    Metro

  • An exquisitely sad, pseudo-ghost story... it is a novel that takes countless risks

    Independent on Sunday

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  • Affinity is the work of an intense and atmospheric imagination... Sarah Waters is such an interesting writer, a kind of feminist Dickens

    Daily Telegraph

  • Sarah Waters is such a brilliant writer that her readers would believe anything she told them

    Daily Mail

  • Extraordinary... written in a subtly caricatured period style... So well researched is this novel that both diaries seem grotesquely authentic

    The Times

  • Sexy, spooky, stylish, Affinity is a wonderful book

    Guardian

  • Waters displays her incredible talent for the Gothic historical novel in this splendid book about a Victorian women's prison and the affair there between an inmate and a lady visitor

    San Francisco Chronicle

  • Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative... superbly suspenseful... This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses

    Seattle Times

  • Unfolds sinuously and ominously... a powerful plot-twister... a truly suspenseful tale of terror; and a piece of elegant, thinly veiled erotica. Like a Ouija board, Affinity offers different messages to different readers, scaring the shrouds off everyone in the process

    USA Today

  • A richly detailed exploration of the mysterious affinity that appears to unite two lonely women... Waters has found a superb metaphor for the love that dares not speak its name, and developed it with remarkable ingenuity and power: another stunning performance

    Kirkus

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Details
Author
Sarah Waters
Narrator
Juanita McMahon
Duration
14 hours 59 minutes
Release Date
25 September 2014
ISBN
9781405532709
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Genre
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

Synopsis

Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870's , AFFINITY is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London's most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners, murderers and common thieves, Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prisons more unlikely inmates - the imprisoned spiritualist - Selina Dawes. Sympathetic to the plight of this innocent-seeming girl, Margaret sees herself dispensing guidance and perhaps friendship on her visits, little expecting to find herself dabbling in a twilight world of seances, shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions.

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