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Book Description
In Victorian England, an orphan girl is sent to a country estate to work for-and ultimately woo-its young heiress, on behalf of a mysterious benefactor known as Gentleman.
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Inner steel
Fingersmith Sarah Waters Virago £15.99, pp549 Sarah Waters dusts off Victorian melodrama and shows that there's life in the old props yet. Her sense of the past is acute, but never inhibits the free flow of invention or emotion. Writing historical fi ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Corky said on Apr 13, 2008 | Add your feedback
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Linda Wilke said on May 5, 2007 | Add your feedback
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Mariella B said on Aug 8, 2011 | Add your feedback
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A real page-turner, with a brisky pace but not too fast.
Lost of psychological insight. The two protagonists are likable in their own way and the shifting point of view, often on the same events, adds to the complexity of the plot.
Defeinitely recommended, if you are not squicked by saffic love.Redviper118 said on Mar 10, 2011 | Add your feedback
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Never judge a book by it's cover
As far as deceptive narratives go, this book provides the reader with one of the most thrilling hidden plots ever.
Sue Trinder uses society's discriminatory attitudes towards women to mock and deceive the reader as well as the other characters while they bring themselves and each other to destructi ... (continue)Gloria Gainer, Duke of Argyle said on Nov 8, 2010 | Add your feedback
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火火 said on Jun 7, 2010 | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 592 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 1573229725
- ISBN-13: 9781573229722
- Publisher: Riverhead Trade
- Pub date: Oct 01, 2002
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9781573229722 | Paperback | $16.00 | $11.52 | bn.com |
| -- | $10.99 | ebooks.com | ||
| $16.00 | $10.49 | The Book Depository | ||
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Marina 
Corsets and cliffhangers
Fingersmith Sarah Waters 416pp, Virago, £12.99 The worst job I ever had was in Debenhams hosiery department, Nottingham, 1977. The one thing that kept me going through that dark, soul-numbing winter was Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White. I gobbled ... (read full critics)