TITLE: FINGERSMITH
AUTHOR: Sarah Waters
DATE PUBLISHED:
DATE READ: July2007 (audiobook)
NOTES: Sub-Dickensian tale of Victorian pickpockets, babyfarmers, confidence tricksters and heiresses. Very convoluted plot (which in the end didn’t really stack up) with an underlying lesbian subtext. Some excellent atmospheric writing but spoiled by the overblown plotting. Slow moving in parts – felt it could have done with editing. However despite all this I did want to know what happened at the end.
AUTHOR: Sarah Waters
DATE PUBLISHED:
DATE READ: July2007 (audiobook)
NOTES: Sub-Dickensian tale of Victorian pickpockets, babyfarmers, confidence tricksters and heiresses. Very convoluted plot (which in the end didn’t really stack up) with an underlying lesbian subtext. Some excellent atmospheric writing but spoiled by the overblown plotting. Slow moving in parts – felt it could have done with editing. However despite all this I did want to know what happened at the end.
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