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.
华老师的第五本小说,说的是二战之后,英格兰沃里克郡(Warwickshire)一处日渐颓败的大庄园百千堂(Hundreds Hall)的人和事。因为是华老师,虽然我想,却不能,做情节复述。我只能站在远处描摹一下它的轮廓。 1919年,法拉第医生(Dr. Faraday)第一次踏入百千堂,参加帝国纪...
评分华老师的第五本小说,说的是二战之后,英格兰沃里克郡(Warwickshire)一处日渐颓败的大庄园百千堂(Hundreds Hall)的人和事。因为是华老师,虽然我想,却不能,做情节复述。我只能站在远处描摹一下它的轮廓。 1919年,法拉第医生(Dr. Faraday)第一次踏入百千堂,参加帝国纪...
评分灵的叠加 撰文|于是 在欧洲有很多这样的豪宅。一英镑或一法郎卖给你,你却需要几十万去维修。但它们依然矗立,远远望着高速公路和乡间小路带来新一代人类。它们就那样风烛残年,用与盛世不同的颓败气质讲述时光和世代的存在。 在看这个故事时,我忘了去追索萨拉·沃特...
评分 评分灵的叠加 撰文|于是 在欧洲有很多这样的豪宅。一英镑或一法郎卖给你,你却需要几十万去维修。但它们依然矗立,远远望着高速公路和乡间小路带来新一代人类。它们就那样风烛残年,用与盛世不同的颓败气质讲述时光和世代的存在。 在看这个故事时,我忘了去追索萨拉·沃特...
还不错,读到中间真的被吓得只敢白天看。。。
评分个人不太喜欢!!
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。
评分好诡异的故事
评分我觉得小孩书一向是不可小觑的
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