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Sarah Waters

Born

in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales, The United Kingdom

July 21, 1966

Website

http://www.sarahwaters.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Influences

Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, John Fowle ...more

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Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch.

Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching. Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she began as soon as the thesis was complete.

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The Handmaiden: U.K. release details

The Handmaiden, which was inspired by Sarah Waters’s novel Fingersmith (2002) will be released in the UK through Curzon Artificial Eye in April 2017.

The New York Times chose The Handmaiden as one of their top ten picks of 2016 and the Guardian US placed the film ninth in its list of the fifty best films of 2016. The film was awarded Best Foreign Picture and Best Production Design by the Los Angel

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Average rating: 3.8 · 400,534 ratings · 36,537 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating — 116,987 ratings — published 2002 — 133 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tipping the Velvet 4.05 avg rating — 77,446 ratings — published 1998 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paying Guests 3.46 avg rating — 83,077 ratings — published 2014 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Stranger 3.57 avg rating — 59,064 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Watch 3.71 avg rating — 33,011 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Affinity 3.75 avg rating — 28,429 ratings — published 1999 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolfskins and Togas: Lesbian and Gay Historical Fiction, 1870 to the Present 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	エアーズ家の没落上 by Sarah Waters, サラ・ウォーターズ, 中村有希 (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	エアーズ家の没落下 by Sarah Waters, サラ・ウォーターズ, 中村有希 (翻訳) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	'A Girton Girl on a Throne': Queen Christina and Versions of Lesbianism, 1906-1933 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

5 votes 26.3%

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3 votes 15.8%

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

3 votes 15.8%

Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente

3 votes 15.8%

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

2 votes 10.5%

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

1 vote 5.3%

Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

1 vote 5.3%

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

1 vote 5.3%

Cassandra by Christa Wolf

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