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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 · 403,219 ratings · 36,926 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating — 118,016 ratings — published 2002 — 5 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 4.06 avg rating — 78,042 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 — 83,339 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 — 59,504 ratings — published 2009 — 117 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 — 33,178 ratings — published 2006 — 97 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 — 28,597 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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Historical Fiction is our genre for November. Please vote on which book you would like to read. Last day to vote is Friday, October 18.

The Red Queen

Philippa Gregory

4 votes, 40.0%

People of the Book

Geraldine Brooks

2 votes, 20.0%

The Lady and the Unicorn

Tracy Chevalier

1 vote, 10.0%

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

1 vote, 10.0%

Fall on your Knees

Ann-Marie MacDonald

1 vote, 10.0%

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

1 vote, 10.0%

The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.

Sandra Gulland

0 votes, 0.0%

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Süskind

0 votes, 0.0%

10 total votes

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