Affinity

Sarah Waters

Riverhead Books, 2000 - FICTION - 351 pages

A pulse-quickening read by the author of Tipping the Velvet, Affinity is a sophisticated and spine-tingling historical mystery awash with the sights, scenes, and smells of 19th century London. This spellbinding ghost story has left British reviewers transfixed with horror and excitement (Daily Mail, London).

About the author

Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has a Ph.D. in English. She is the author of several books including Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, The Night Watch, and The Paying Guests. Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. She has won a Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003, she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and was named Author of the Year by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association and Waterstone's Booksellers. Several of her novels have been adapted for television.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Affinity
• Author: Sarah Waters
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2000
• ISBN: 1573221562, 9781573221566
• Length: 351 pages
• Subjects: FICTION / Occult & Supernatural; FICTION / Thrillers / General