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Recovering after an attempted suicide, Margaret Prior makes charitable visits to the women's ward at Millbank Prison, where she encounters the charismatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Caught up in Selina's spell, Margaret begins attending s?ances, and eventually allows Selina to persuade her to help her escape. A 2001 nominee for a Lambda Literary Award.

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Authors	Sarah Waters
Fiction Genre
Fiction Subgenre	• • • • • • •
Awards	2001 Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Book Award (ALA)

Professional Reviews

Professional Reviews

<b>Willard, Nancy, <i>New York Times Book Review</i>:</b> "The real power of this book belongs not to Selina but to the author herself. Through the lens of her late-20th-century consciousness, she pictures their world, even as she flawlessly renders the tone and diction of these 19th-century women's experiences. Admirers of Waters's first novel will recognize her consummate skill in evoking a sense of place--a particularly challenging task in the first half of AFFINITY, in which Margaret sets out to write a factual catalog of her visits. Waters manages to imbue wealth of potentially dry descriptive material with the emotion Margaret has tried to suppress...."

Book Editions

Book Editions

PaperbackReprint351January 01, 2002Riverhead Books5.5"(h) x 8"(w) x 1"(d), 0.65 lbs.9781573228732

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