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Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has a Ph.D. in English. She is the author of several books including Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, The Night Watch, and The Paying Guests. Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. She has won a Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003, she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and was named Author of the Year by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association and Waterstone's Booksellers. Several of her novels have been adapted for television. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Fingersmith… (more)
Fingersmith 7,653 copies, 277 reviews
The Little Stranger 4,976 copies, 338 reviews
Tipping the Velvet 4,966 copies, 143 reviews
The Night Watch 4,311 copies, 148 reviews
Affinity 3,270 copies, 128 reviews
The Paying Guests 3,102 copies, 194 reviews
Nights at the Circus (Introduction, some editions) 2,584 copies, 50 reviews
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman (Introduction, some editions) 1,429 copies, 67 reviews
A View of the Harbour (Introduction, some editions) 559 copies, 32 reviews
Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists 2003 (Contributor) 271 copies, 2 reviews
The Trail of the Serpent (Introduction, some editions) 179 copies, 6 reviews
Tipping the Velvet [2002 TV mini series] (Original novel) 76 copies, 1 review
Fingersmith [2005 TV mini series] (Original book) 59 copies, 1 review
The Handmaiden [2016 film] (Original novel) 48 copies, 2 reviews
Virago Is 40 (Contributor) 30 copies
Affinity [2008 film] (Original novel) 19 copies, 1 review
The Little Stranger [2018 film] (Original novel) 8 copies
Tipping the Velvet - play (Original novel) 5 copies
The Night Watch (Modern Plays) (Original novel) 1 copy

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