Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
Fiction · Great for: Adults
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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize (now the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction) and the Man Booker Prize
London 1862.
Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves – fingersmiths – under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her ‘family’. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue’s fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
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