Sarah Waters

Are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his....

Londra, 1922. La città porta ancora i segni della recente guerra: sono molte le cose che hanno bisogno di essere ricostruite...

Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms - as something like two great waddling shillings....

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Book of the Year, 2007.
Shortlisted for Audible's Listen of the Year, 2006.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2006.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2006.

Air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure....

Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870's, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story....

London 1862: Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her family....

Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl....

London, 1922. Die 28-jährige Frances Wray und ihre Mutter sind gezwungen, Untermieter in ihrem Stadthaus aufzunehmen...