Affinity
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.21 (729 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1573228737 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own.As in her noteworthy deput, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the New York Times Book Review, of "startling power.". Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was con
A very different story than Tipping the Velvet. Pele Incognita My expectations were really high before I started Affinity. I had devoured Tipping the Velvet in a period of days. And much looked forward to the release of another novel by Sarah Waters.With Affinity I was dissapointed as I was unable to ever get a real connection going with the story. One of the flaws I encountered was the going back and forth in time left me feeling confused and never really became a natural part of the read for me. Also the descriptio. Gripping Brenda B Waters is a master of plot and forward momentum, making this a compelling story. Moreover, she writes beautifully. Many books have one quality or the other; hers have both.. A novel by a lesbian is not necessarily a lesbian novel This book will disappoint if the reader is expecting a lesbian novel. Though female characters are attracted to other female characters -- after all, the main setting is a women's prison -- there are no moments of lesbian love-making or other conventions of the typical lesbian novel. (To say more is to give too much of the plot away.)But it is a wonderful novel showcasing the incredible skills of its author Sarah Waters. You can read _Affinity_ on so many
In late September 1874, Margaret Prior makes her way through the pentagons of London's Millbank Prison, a place of fearful symmetry and endless corridors. Affinity is a tale of power and possession that Henry James himself might admire. Strangest of all, Selina seems to love her. One person, however, makes her job a passion. Opening an inspection slit (or "eye" as these devices are known), Margaret hears "a perfect sigh, like a sigh in a story." Peering inward, she's confronted by the most erotic of visions--a woman turned toward the sun, caressing her cheek with a forbidden violet: "As I watched, she put the flower to her lips, and breathed upon it, and the purple of the petals gave a quiver and seemed to glow" Selina Dawes may indeed have the face of a Crivelli angel, but this medium is in for