Affinità
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788879287289 (8879287281)
Publish date: September 2nd 2004
Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie
Pages no: 416
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gothic,
Lesbian
After the death of her father and an episode of severe depression, Margaret Prior becomes a lady visitor in the Millbank prison. Here she encounters Selina Dawes, a spiritual medium, who claims to speak to the dead. A woman, who Margaret can´t resist to become infatuated with. This was a great rea...
I wanted to like this book, I really did. Out of all the author's works, this is the one I was truly excited to read. But I found it to be very lackluster and boring. Perhaps it didn't hold my focus enough, but I failed to see where most of the story connected. It's a shame when I have to be happy t...
Goodreads summary: "Now you know why you are drawn to me – why your flesh comes creeping to mine, and what it comes for. Let it creep."From the dark heart of a Victorian prison, disgraced spiritualist Selina Dawes weaves an enigmatic spell. Is she a fraud, or a prodigy? By the time it all begins to ...
I'm a big Sarah Waters fan and have been for many years. I've read all of her books, in the order that they were published. My first reading of Affinity left me very disappointed. Many of my friends had read it and raved about how great it was - it's the favorite SW book for some of them. After r...
"Now I have more freedom than I ever had at any time in my life, and I do only the things I always have." Affinity - a feeling of closeness and understanding that someone has for another person because of their similar qualities, ideas, or interests (source). This book was not easy to get into. ...