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Title	:	Affinity
Author	:	Sarah Waters
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	January 8th 2002 by Riverhead Books (first published May 6th 1999)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. LGBT. Gothic. Mystery

Affinity Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by one apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own.

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Original Title:	Affinity
ISBN:	1573228737 (ISBN13: 9781573228732)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Stonewall Book Award for Literature (2001), Somerset Maugham Award (2000), Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction (2001), Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2000), このミステリーがすごい！ for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (2004)

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Sarah Waters, at this stage, must be the accepted queen of Victorian Gothic lesbian melodrama; not, I imagine, that there is much competition for this title, but I think it's a deserved one nonetheless.In many ways, the plot of Affinity is like that of the other work of Waters' that I have read, Fingersmith. Crime and Victorian punishment, repression and sexuality and psychology, all feature heavily in both books. Affinity, however, is a much more satisfying novel for me. While it, too, hangs on

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In reading the gothic psychological novel Affinity, it is nearly impossible to shake off an overwhelming feeling of gloom and pervasive dread. Following a failed suicide attempt, a young "lady visitor" named Margaret Prior develops a relationship with an inmate named Selina Dawes in a Victorian women's prison, and both their lives are forever changed by their acquaintance.Narrated in alternating chapters by the two very different women, this dark, moody story incites fear, melancholy, and

When I first finished this book, I rated it 4 stars because my head was still spinning from the very clever twists at the end. But now I come to review the book and it is very definitely a 5 star read for me.This darkly gothic tale takes part in Victorian London and Waters' writing really paints a vivid and stark portrait of what it must have been like living there, and in particular what life was like in a women's prison. When I started reading the first chapter, I thought I wasn't going to

"Sexy, Spooky, Stylish" - that's the blurb on the cover. If I was not a Sarah Waters fan already, I would have picked up the book based on those words. How can you resist a book with that description? After reading the book, I can safely say that those words are an accurate description of Affinity. I will further add to that - "Haunting and magical."It seems, I have been reading many deliciously gothic novels recently. Well, I am not complaining! Affinity is yet another addition to my love for

This novel made me bawl my eyes out at sleep-over, one time. No joke, I was literally sobbing by the time I got to the end.Don't ask me why I was reading a novel instead of playing with the other kids at the sleep-over, you'll only make it worse.