Questa autrice è celebrata per la sua maestria narrativa e la sua capacità di immergere i lettori in ambientazioni storiche riccamente immaginate. Le sue opere esplorano frequentemente relazioni complesse e percorsi non convenzionali, addentrandosi nei temi dell'identità, del desiderio e delle norme sociali. Guidata da un profondo coinvolgimento con la storia letteraria e una meticolosa ricerca, crea narrazioni che sono allo stesso tempo avvincenti e intellettualmente risonanti. Il suo approccio alla scrittura, derivante da un background accademico, enfatizza un'attenta costruzione del mondo e una profondità psicologica.
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers
An anthology of the winning entries in the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009, which celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen's arrival in Chawton House, where she spent the most productive years of her literary life. The intention of the prize is to publish the very best short fiction inspired by Jane Austen or Chawton House. Chair of Judges is bestselling author Sarah Waters.
Durante un'estate polverosa, un medico viene chiamato a visitare un paziente in un solitario maniero, Hundreds Hall. L'antico edificio georgiano, abitato da oltre due secoli dalla famiglia Ayres, è ora in rovina: il muratura si sgretola, il giardino è invaso dalle erbacce e l'orologio nel fienile si è fermato alle otto e quaranta. I proprietari – madre, figlio e figlia – lottano con i cambiamenti della società e con i propri conflitti. Ma la famiglia Ayres è tormentata anche da qualcosa di più sinistro? Il dottor Faraday non sa ancora quanto il loro racconto si intreccerà in modo inquietante con il suo.
“[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character.”—Chicago Tribune Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners—three women and a young man with a past—whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event.
* The Orange Prize short-listed, Booker Prize short-listed, critically adored, third novel from Sarah Waters - reissued in with a stunning new jacket
Now you know why you are drawn to me - why your flesh comes creeping to mine, and what it comes for. Let it creep.From the dark heart of a Victorian prison, disgraced spiritualist Selina Dawes weaves an enigmatic spell. Is she a fraud, or a prodigy? By the time it all begins to matter, you’ll find yourself desperately wanting to believe in magic.
This delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler. When Kitty is called up to London for an engagement on "Grease Paint Avenue," Nan follows as her dresser and secret lover, and, soon after, dons trousers herself and joins the act. In time, Kitty breaks her heart, and Nan assumes the guise of butch roue to commence her own thrilling and varied sexual education - a sort of Moll Flanders in drag - finally finding friendship and true love in the most unexpected places.Drawing comparison to the work of Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Waters' novel is a feast for the senses - an erotic, lushly detailed historical novel that bursts with life and dazzlingly casts the turn of the century in a different light.
