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. ...
An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated...
Pa used to say that any piece of history might be made into a tale: it was only a question of deciding where the tale began, and where it ended. That, he said, was all his skill. And perhaps, after all, the histories he dealt with were rather easy to sift like that, to divide up and classify - the g...
Rating: 4 of 5 Excellent! Affinity wasn't a fast-paced story but nonetheless compelling. Waters had me so thoroughly wrapped up in Margaret's POV that the "twist" actually surprised me. The mixture of journal entries from both Margaret and Selina definitely helped with that trickery. The ending ...
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