Affinity. By Sarah Waters. Affinity is a story of an upper class unmarried midwife in Margaret Prior, who is trying to recover from her tragic suicide attempt and the death of her beloved father. · Affinity is yet another addition to my love for anything gothic. Sarah Waters, who is considered the "Queen of Victorian Gothic novels", churns out yet another winner. Margaret Prior suffers a complete mental breakdown, following her father's death. A /5. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I woke, it was to the sound of my own weeping. For I had hoped to open my eyes on Heaven, where my father was; and they had only pulled me back to Hell.”. ― Sarah Waters, Affinity.
For this blog post, I will be focusing on the novel Affinity written by Sarah Waters, which revolves around the life of the protagonist, Margaret Prior. Margaret chooses to try and escape from her depression and overbearing mother by visiting female prisoners at Millbank Prison. Margaret is fascinated by a prisoner called Selina Dawes, with. Sarah Waters is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Paying Guests, The Little Stranger,The Night Watch, Fingersmith, Affinity, and Tipping the Velvet.. She has three times been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, has twice been a finalist for the Orange Prize, and was named one of Granta's best young British novelists, among other distinctions. 'Affinity is the work of an intense and atmospheric imagination Sarah Waters is such an interesting writer, a kind of feminist Dickens' Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Daily Telegraph Set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the s, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the.
Affinity () is English writer Sarah Waters’s second historical fiction novel. Like many of Waters’s other works, it explores the interior lives of and romantic relationships between women during the Victorian era in England. Affinity won several awards following its publication, including the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, both in Affinity. By Sarah Waters. Affinity is a story of an upper class unmarried midwife in Margaret Prior, who is trying to recover from her tragic suicide attempt and the death of her beloved father. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I woke, it was to the sound of my own weeping. For I had hoped to open my eyes on Heaven, where my father was; and they had only pulled me back to Hell.”. ― Sarah Waters, Affinity.
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