Sarah Waters, 35, was born in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, United Kingdom. She studied English Literature at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, at the universities of Kent and Lancaster. As a student she lived for two years in Whitstable, the sea-side town—famous for its oysters—in which her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, is partly set. In 1988 she moved to London; her first full-time job was in an independent bookshop; later she worked in public libraries. In 1991 she decided to return to postgraduate study, and she spent the next three years writing a Ph.D. thesis, on lesbian and gay historical fiction. She developed a daily writing routine, and a passion for language and composition. She had articles on gender, sexuality, and history published in various scholarly journals, including Feminist Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and Science as Culture.
But while working on her thesis, and becoming increasingly interested in London life of the nineteenth century, Waters began to conceive the historical novel that would become Tipping the Velvet. With the thesis complete, and supporting herself with bits of teaching and part-time library work, she started to write. The novel was finished in just over a year, and was published in the U.K. by Virago (1998) and in the U.S. by Riverhead (1999). The BBC is in the process of adapting the book into a major series with director Andrew Davies, who also directed the BBC’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now.
By 1991, Waters had already begun her second novel, Affinity. This was completed with help from a London Arts Board New London Writers Award, and appeared in the U.K. in 1999 and in the U.S. in 2000. Waters taught for a time for the Open University, a national educational institution offering undergraduate schooling to mature students from a range of social backgrounds. She has also tutored on creative writing programs. She published articles on literature as recently as 1999, but now devotes herself full time to the writing of fiction. Her third novel, Fingersmith, was completed in 2001, and she is currently at work on her next book. She still lives in London, a city she finds endlessly inspiring; but she dreams, too, of returning to a life by the sea.
Sarah Waters made the Granta list for 2003.
After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels, Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote THE NIGHT WATCH, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain. Shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his. Prepare yourself. From this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.
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评分 评分二次战后的某年夏天,法拉第医生接到百厦庄园艾氏家族请求,为他们唯一的小女佣贝蒂看病。其实不是真有病痛,只是闹情绪,小小抗议老庄园的暮气阴沉。 四十好几的法拉第医生,父母早年曾在庄园服务,他对百厦庄园和艾氏家族光辉过去仍然历历在目。出于憧憬、于心不忍、...
到底是mystery还是gothic story还是detective story?
评分心之所向,魔之所生
评分庄园里那些慢慢浮出水面的阴谋,幽深的秘密和神秘事件,花了整整一周内每晚的前半夜,不愿意潦草地去翻开它,拉严了窗帘拧亮床头暗灯,就像在读赛特菲尔德的《the 13th tale》,又像是《Rebecca》读到末尾,她是谜一样的幽灵,熊熊火光中的曼德丽庄园,Joan Fontaine在《Jane Eyre》最后听见燃烧的大宅里阁楼上从未出现的女人疯癫刺耳的尖笑。所有的谜底都在最后揭晓,而Sarah Waters却留下一个不算诡怖却苍凉的结尾,中段的篇章那么阴森神秘,可最后 sarah似乎留下了一个永远的谜。
评分花了八天的晚上读完了????,中间有一晚差点摔了kindle,随便挑的书内容一段和现实重叠简直恐怖。我很喜欢英国战前战后的那一段历史细节,sarah waters精于描述这一段时间,当然,没有什么比小说家写的更真实了。当然这个悬疑的故事苍凉忧郁,顺着脉络我有自己的推测,终不能确定究竟是何种存在可以在一年之内毁灭这么多人的希望。
评分开放结局令人意外,但氛围描写意味悠长。
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